Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh Sudanese dates cost 25?, and 50? buys a look at the recently discovered 1,000-year-old Sudanese Madonna. You can watch a New York harnessmaker make a saddle and West Virginians blow glass. At the Singer exhibit, you can see jeweled woolen fabrics that cost $1,200 a yard. You can walk through the African pavilion, see Watusi dancers and royal Burundi drummers and have your eyes opened to a dozen nations you never knew existed, and a year or so ago you were right...
...first business brains of the family. He saw the need for good black powder for the huntsmen and the frontiersmen of the young and struggling U.S., and in 1802 set up his factory on the Brandywine; later he added a woolen mill. From those modest beginnings sprang the $3.3 billion empire that today spans much of the world with 117 factories employing 93,000 workers turning out 1,200 products. It has become the greatest chemical company in the world's history, a company that has spent apparently reckless millions on apparently useless laboratory research, and seen...
...Charles still suffers from pollution, even though MPH claims that it is not significant. At present, there are two direct sources of contamination along the ninety mile stream. Untreated sewage comes into the river at Natick, and, further upstream, industrial wastes enter from a woolen finishing factory. Though neither of these sources contribute harmful amounts of pollution, MPH plans to have them eliminated...
...with Gertrude and has endured the "empty" years since her death. While Gertrude wrote and talked, Alice ran the household, typed the manuscripts, cared for the dogs, screened the visitors and tended the vegetable gardens that they planted almost anywhere the two of them lived. She knitted the shapeless woolen garments and heavy woolen stockings Gertrude favored. She seems, in fact, to have disappeared virtually without a trace into Gertrude Stein's life. The reader never learns, for instance, what became of her father (her mother died when she was young) or her younger brother. After her departure from...
Coming from such a background, girls find themselves already outfitted in the chocolate uniform. It may range in attractiveness, but it is always Conventional. Woolen scarves over the head, large plaids, sneakers, eye-glasses, and thick boots are common. When they are messy it is with dirty hair, bitten nails, and too-long skirts. And when they are well-dressed, it is in a happily wholesome way, with pleated skirts, Loden coats, and the bulky cardigans that all of American teenagery is wearing. If they approach the tastefulness of the peach style at times (without ever really achieving...