Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924). An extra sex gland grafted in young rams so increased their weight and hair-growing processes that they averaged 19 Ibs. heavier than two-gland rams; yielded half a pound more wool per clipping. The mutton increase, if "glanding" were continued, would be about...
Engaged. Charles H. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co. (meat, glue, fertilizer, gelatin, wool, leather, soap); to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano (Metropolitan and Chicago Opera, recently in concert). In Chicago she said: "American men are the loveliest to marry...
Next in order came unmanufactured wool, dressed and undressed furs, standard newsprint paper, with raw hides and skins other than furs eighth on the list...
...University, "Four Introductory Lectures," "La Methode Comparative en Linguistique Historique," by A. Meillet, "Custom and Right," by Paul Vinogradoff, "Mankind, Nation, and Individual," by Otto Jesperson, "Sanlede Skrifter," by Moltke Moe, "Santal Folk Tales," by P. O. Bodding, "Trends in American Seconary Education," by Leonard V. Koos, "The American Wool Manufacture," by A. H. Cole '13, Assistant Professor of Economics in Harvard University, "Cotton Mather, The Puritan Priest," by Barrett Wendell '02, "Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan," by Kenneth B. Murdock '17, "Guminberg to Platini," by G. P. Winship '93, "Prints and Books: Informal Papers," by W. M. Iryins...
...What they valued most was that it would keep out cold-cold which they expected would reach 50° to 60° below zero during part of their journey towards the Pole, and that it would keep within doors heat adequate for comfort. They might have taken along "Balsam Wool" (Wood Conversion Co., Cloquet, Minn.), "Fibrofelt" (Union Fibre Co., Winona, Minn.), "Corkboard" (Armstrong Cork & Insulation Co., Pittsburgh), "Insulite" (Insulite Co., Minneapolis), "Garrettite" (C. S. Garrett Co., Philadelphia), "Quilt" (Samuel Cabot Co., Boston), or "Mineral Wool" (U.S. Mineral Wool Co., Manhattan)-all of which are excellent insulating materials widely used...