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...press recently broadcasted from Liege, Belgium, the announcement that Surgeon Serge Voronoff, famed French gland-grafter, had stated that it was possible to increase the wool crop of sheep by gland-transplanting. He added that he hoped, by repeating the process on several generations of sheep, to create a special breed unusually wool-productive. He said that he was experimenting on a flock of 3,000 sheep in Algeria...
...conferences went out of fashion. He, like Demosthenes, believed that the first, second and third parts of oratory were all "action." He consented to send a representative to the Genoa Conference, but upon the conspicuous failure of that meet, M. Poincare sent his soldiers to the Ruhr and stuffed wool into his ears...
...Woolsack is a red-covered cushion stuffed with wool. The first is said to have been placed in the House by Edward III to remind their lordships of the importance of England's wool trade...
...simply a retired actress? No, indeed. She left the stage to take a husband. But when she lost a husband she did not leave an active life in politics and the world of affairs. She runs three farms. She keeps pedigreed milch cows. She directs the State Wool Pool. She works for the American Farm Bureau Federation. She works for the Democratic Party...
...northern part of India through a narrow province of modern China to the valley of the Yellow River. This province, Kansu, is where we did most of our work, finding traces of Chinese art, influenced by the Indian Buddhist traders who brought ponies and jade to exchange for the wool and skins of the Tartars. This art is in the form of statues and frescoes left in caves, shrines and temples from the border of Turkestan to Loyang, where the Chinese civilization of that day was centered...