Word: oak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finished in natural white pine and trowelled plaster, and on the west down a double stair, to a large room, 32 by 45 feet, two stories high, which will be used at present as a library for the group of Freshman halls. The finish will be natural pine and oak and trowelled plaster with tile floor. Both of these rooms will be less formal in treatment than corresponding ones in the present Freshman halls...
...four strokes under the par of the Youngstown, Ohio, course. Next to him was Donald Carrick of Toronto with a 69. After them straggled the field. Macdonald Smith was listed in the first eight, with a 70. The know-it-alls pointed to his name and thumped on oak tables till the glasses jumped. "Watch Smith" they dogmatized, "let me tell you something...
...Hutton, D. D., of the Westminster Chapel, London; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D.; the Rev. James Reid, M. A., of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Eastbourne, Eng.; Dr. William Louis Poteat, President of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C.; the Rev. W. Fearon Holiday of Selly Oak College, Birmingham, Eng., and Melvin E. Trotter, Superintendent of the City Mission, Grand Rapids, Mich...
From the mob emerged three well-dressed lawyers, hastened up the steps of the episcopal home, found the door stoutly barred, became enraged. They pounded. The woman shrieked again. They battered the oak, crawled through, rushed to the stairs where they found five-year-old Oleg Chervinsky howling faithfully...
Bishop Adam had left his secretary, the Rev. Michael Chervinsky, pretty little Mrs. Chervinsky and Oleg to hold the episcopal fort against all comers. The Rev. and Mrs. Chervinsky were upstairs whither the lawyers, joined by special police, quickly followed. Battering through more oak, they found the Rev. Secretary and his wife. "I'm sick," said Mrs. Chervinsky from the bed, "go away." "We'll get an ambulance," said a detective. Instantly she threw back the bedcovers, jumped forth full-clad...