Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year and the year before Captain Brown sailed round the world. Every year since he left the trade of the sea he has yachted with his brother Jacob Frederick, reputed world's biggest wool merchant, who flies a Boston Yacht Club flag. Up to his last illness he wrote sea yarns for the Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman. Modest, despite his immense knowledge and creditable learning, he had a quaint way of submitting his salty MSS. to University-bred employees, "just to have a glance over the grammar and syntax...
Hero: a man clad in knee length corduroy "britches," long stockings, shoes and a wool shirt, equipped with pocket for carrying field notes...
...Wool Growers and Stockmen's Association of South Dakota recently hired two fliers to eliminate coyotes from their sheep-grazing lands. In one day's hunting Charles Orlup and Earl Wilson shot down...
...realm to be so nonchalant, so easily and intelligently apprehensive of both modernity and Eternal Rome? Is not Afghanistan the exotic and backward land of castor oil beans, asafoetida plants, and "fat-tailed sheep"?* Is it possible that a country without railways, a people whose chief exports are the wool and skins of "fat-tailed sheep" can have achieved sophistication...
...late Champ Clark because of the Senator's vast sheep interests in Wyoming." I feel sure that the designation was conferred on the venerable Senator from Wyoming by Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa, on June 8, 1909, during the historic debate on Schedule K (the wool tariff) in the Senate, from which this extract is taken...