Word: hardwoods
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Meanwhile six more men had entered the house. They carried boxes of heavy equipment. Neighbors thought they were only 'leggers. In the second-floor parlor they sawed a three-foot square in the hardwood floor. Beneath that they pierced 18 inches of brick. Acetylene torches next cut through a layer of steel. Through the hole beneath yawned the vault of Koch & Co., real estate firm, on the ground floor...
...motormakers still had cause to boast. With pride they could point to the fact that their gargantuan industry devours 82% of the rubber, 55% of the plate glass, 15% of the iron & steel, 57% of the upholstery leather, 30% of the aluminum, 14% of the copper, 15% of the hardwood, 24% of the lead, 80% of the gasoline consumed in the U. S.; that it fills 3,080,000 freight cars a year; that it employs almost 5,000,000 workers...
...exceptionally strong field. Coggeshall ranks fourteenth in the country, and he is expected to be an easy winner in the opening rounds. Murphy, who was national indoor junior champion in 1929, forced Coggeshall to five sets in the University tournament last fall, and should do even better on the hardwood courts. According to Coach Harry Cowles, the Harvard freshman should be conceded an almost even chance of upsetting Hunter...
...Murphy's form is far superior to that of the veteran," commented the diminutive mentor of Harvard's squash and tennis teams, "and he has concentrated on the hardwood court game throughout his career, while Hunter is known chiefly for his ability on grass courts. I shouldn't be much surprised to see Murphy wear the next indoor crown...
...casual observer a dance hall is an upstairs place in a side street where the patrons stroll aimlessly about a railed-in hardwood floor, waiting for unknown partners to appear. For 10? they may pass the rail and dance for five minutes under red-lidded lights. A strong man supervises, sees there is no disturbance...