Word: yarning
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...machines were hastily installed. Because U. S. labor could not run the machines, the New England entrepreneurs had to import skilled French and British operatives. Whenever the lace industry has one of its infrequent booms, it still suffers from a shortage of trained labor. Much of the special yarn required was, and still is, imported. Most lace design ("inspiration" to the trade) was, and still is, imported...
...check received for the yarn, if handed to Roy Larsen. would keep me in good standing with your circulation department for some years to come. Hence reading TIME is a damn good investment for a writer...
Stones; Shoes; Strikes. Jerome Herman Dean was born in Holdenville, Okla. in 1911. His father was an impoverished junkman and cotton picker. His mother died when he was 4. Jerome Dean began pitching to his brother, two years his junior, with a ball made out of yarn wrapped around a stone. He threw stones at squirrels until his aim was deadly. By the time he was 12, he was invited to pitch for the baseball team of a nearby high school which, because he had left grammar school after the fourth grade, he was too ignorant to attend...
...yarn as first printed in the Herald gave Wethersfield, about 20 miles from Perry where there is a beaver dam, as the residence of Herman Strutter, but as the story was relayed Wethersfield was deleted and the Perry date line stuck...
...Isaiah Bowman got a B. S. at Harvard in three years, a Ph. D. at Yale in three more. Every few years after that he was off to South America, teaching at Yale between expeditions. In 1915 the American Geographical Society called him to Manhattan as its director. The yarn-swappers of the Explorers' Club came to know him as a vigorous organizer who raised $350,000 to finish a large-scale map of Hispanic America. In 1931 he was elected president of the International Geographical Union...