Word: woole
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...smitten by Hardy's books, visited England, where she was apparently smitten by Hardy himself. After some mild tea-drinking and book-autographing plus years of letter-writing, she was finally brushed off by the aging and impatient author. Though the book is for dyed-in-the-wool Hardy fans only, it is another example of the interest the man continues to hold while the George Merediths fade away...
...plaintive cry falls not on deaf ears. Of a sudden, there is a subtle, barely perceptible murmur in the town--a faint rustling, and in the distance, the monotonous scrape-scrape of steel wool on long forgotten hope chests...
They are of varying textures: angora, wool, jersey and burlap. And of varying shapes, loose or tight...
...Canterbury? The next step was to compare MS. 75 with the longest and best authenticated sample of Chaucer's handwriting-a five-line note written while he was controller of customs at the wool quay. Price looked up the note in the London Public Record Office, photographed it, and showed it to Professor Roger Mynors, an expert on medieval handwriting. Yes, said the professor, the writing in the note and the writing in MS. 75 were very much alike...
...reflecting the uncertainty of large segments of U.S. business. For months, economists had been forecasting a slowdown in the first and second quarters, when civilian output would be deeply cut before arms orders could fill the slack. But the slowdown seemed a little worse than expected. The cotton and wool industries were in the doldrums; the rayon industry was in the first real depression in its history. New steel capacity would soon be coming in at the rate of about 1,000,000 tons a month, and there was talk that the shortage of some types of steel had ended...