Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow's All-Russian Wool Institute, a "depilatory'' was developed which, when mixed with a sheep's food, loosens the wool, saves the expense of shearing, increases the yield, does not harm the sheep...
...screen test. Watching her shrewdly with his hat over his eyes and a cigar in his mouth, Korda tactfully taught her how to act. She played the part of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third wife. At Barbara Hutton's wedding in Paris she met Wool worth Donahue, rich Hutton cousin. Last summer they were reported engaged. She arrived in the U. S. six months ago for the purpose of marrying him. But Mrs. Donahue Sr. does not like actresses. Her engagement broken, Wendy Barrie followed Henry VIII's other wives (Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Elsa...
...stomachs of those who have never experienced an Eliot House repast, there may lurk the false assumption that Lowell House has a monopoly on worm-ridden fish, bad eggs, wizened grape-fruit, oily orange-juice, moribund chops, all-wool pancakes, bilious liver, vegetables that smell as sweet by any other name, and so forth, down the pallid lists of the oleaginous concatenation of convalescing vitamins served at room temperature and garnished with the cadavers of the insect world. My gorge rises at the thought! I challenge any of the seven cross-sections to greater right to complaint. For the honor...
Other yarns: Oscar Cowlie found that he could milk his cows quicker if he took his. radio to the barn, tuned in on fast tempo music; Charles Nestor noticed the backs of his sheep were getting bare, investigation showed that swallows had picked wool therefrom to line their nests; Elmer Sweetdcw tapped his sugar bush, found a pail with whiskey in it next morning, reached into a knothole in the tree and pulled out a whiskey bottle placed there by a hired man years ago. He had drilled directly into the cork in tapping the tree. . . . HOWARD E. HAGGSTROM...
...Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...