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Shoemaking and boat building became popular pursuits and a strong boating community exists today.
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Shoemaking business in one attempt to prevent such a scam. 54
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Shoemaking, I assume, makes one more critical of shoes, and screenwriting can often make one more critical of films.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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Shoemaking, I assume, makes one more critical of shoes, and screenwriting can often make one more critical of films.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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Shoemaking, I assume, makes one more critical of shoes, and screenwriting can often make one more critical of films.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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Shoemaking and carpentering were given to me for trades, but as young fellow I shipped on a freighter plying between New Orleans and Liverpool, thinking I would like to be a seaman.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives Work Projects Administration
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Shoemaking is one of the most prosperous industries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Since the papers on "Boot and Shoemaking," in vol.i. of _Amateur
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various
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Shoemaking machinery not having attained the present development which pastes imitation-leather uppers upon paper soles, the soldiers of the first Union Army had to trudge in the boots made with wooden pegs to hold the portions together; in wet weather the pegs swelled and held tolerably, but in dryness the assimilation failed and the upper crust yawned off the base like a crab-shell divided.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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Shoemaking machinery not having attained the present development which pastes imitation-leather uppers upon paper soles, the soldiers of the first Union Army had to trudge in the boots made with wooden pegs to hold the portions together; in wet weather the pegs swelled and held tolerably, but in dryness the assimilation failed and the upper crust yawned off the base like a crab-shell divided.
The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907
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