Word: woole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 2 in Pierce 110 the American Wooolen Company's moving picture entitled "From Wool to Cloth" will be shown under the auspices of the Industrial Management Department of the Business School. Mr. Ignatius MacNulty chairman of the Department of Labor of the American Woolen Company will speak while the picture is being shown, and will explain its various features. This picture and talk will give the men who go to Lawrence during the spring vacation to study the company's mills there, an opportunity to become familiar with the processes which they will later observe. Although the meeting...
...bandy-legged and lame of one foot; his shoulders were crooked and contracted towards his chest; his head was peaked towards the top and then wool was scattered over it. . . . And on this occasion, shouting out shrillly, he uttered bitter taunts."-That is the description of Theristes, "reckless babbler" of Homer's Iliad...
...stoop is used in the summer months as a living room and dining room" Miss Eustis explained, "where wool, peppers, onions, and corn are hung up about the room to dry. In the first act on a late September afternoon in 1820, before the marriage of Peetcha, Case Steenkoop's son; everything is in disorder. There are bits of dingy rag carpet on the floor; a single harness, cider jug, horse pall, and other things have been left carelessly about the room. By the second act, five years later, a woman has entered the house, the room is much neater...
...announcement by the Trustees of the Dowse Institute of a course of five lectures, by Professor Kittredge at Sanders Theatre on "Five Tragedies of Shakspere", recalls attention to the interesting and fruitful endowment which these lectures represent. Thomas Dowse was a wool-puller and leather-dresser in Cambridge port. He began life with scarcely any schooling; was apprenticed to his trade as a boy, and continued in it until his death at the age of 84; living, unmarried, in rooms above his shop, over whose door a carved lamb was set, not to suggest his inclination to fleece...
...this country, thus protecting our manufacturing industries and enabling the American workman to get better wages and live on a higher plane than his fellow workman in Europe. Today, the middle West is urging the imposition of Tariff duties on products of nature such as oil, cotton, wool, hides and other agricultural products, claiming that the day for protection of manufactured goods alone has long passed. This is a doctrine very alien to what is taught in the Eastern colleges and entirely revolutionary to he fundamental idea of what a Tariff should be. The difficult problem of raising revenue...