Word: penning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a bill became law, they warned, "Labor's Minister of Agriculture could forget all about any future cooperation from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge the Master of Foxhounds with throwing a live fox to his dogs. "I have never," said the huntsman, "thrown a live cub to hounds. It is well known that this is bad for the hounds...
...neat, slight, cheerful-seeming man who belies the world-weariness and oppressive sense of guilt in his paintings. He lives and works alone in a studio near Brooklyn Heights, walks the city streets or rides the subway for relaxation-stopping every now & then to make a quick little pen sketch...
...seam by "unlocking" the bobbin stitch. When the Lawrence-Walls "ripper" was first demonstrated a month ago, Birmingham housewives bought 5,000 (at $1 each) in four hours. Last week the inventors granted exclusive manufacturing rights to the Oilman Corp. of Janesville, Wis., a subsidiary of Parker Pen...
...Hunan Provincial Library at Changsha, a 19-year-old farm lad for the first time in his narrow life looked at a map of the world. He studied it, as he later recalled, with great interest. Last week, the farm lad was redrawing that map with an iron pen dipped in blood. Mao Tse-tung was adding China to the domain of world Communism...
...today's registration. But for undergraduate politicians and men below Group 8, here are a few words of explanation. Today, in Memorial Hall, everybody from A to Z is performing an operation which, in effect, is another op'nin' of another show. A few swift, sure strokes of your pen, and you have begun to play your part in that great annual drama of education known as the Spring Term...