Word: slat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house for the B.s had been finished and occupied by last week. Viewed from the street it lay along the hillside like an airy fort, constructed of redwood, rosy-beige stucco and plate glass. A solidly railed, angular deck jutted out at one side; a larger, unrailed deck of slat-grill redwood served as the entrance porch. The living room was an 18 by 32 ft. rectangle staggered irregularly by a guest closet, bookcases, birch-trimmed dining alcove and flagstone hearth. Along one wall were 27 ft. of plate glass windows, with sliding draperies. The opposite wall, facing out into...
...from door to door by Yankee peddlers more than 100 years ago, were back in production. In the rebuilt original plant at Riverton (formerly Hitchcocks-ville), Conn., enterprising Furniture Makers John Kenney and Richard Coombs were turning out rush-seated Hitchcock crown backs, turtle backs, button backs and plain slat backs, for sale throughout the U.S. The price...
...last week Ben Youngdahl had beaten his deadline. Washington's undergraduate school is still closed to Negroes, but eight were enrolled for the spring semester at the School of Social Work, and one more slat had been kicked out of the cultural fence which separates St. Louis' whites from its Negroes...
Just as there are people who enjoy batting their heads against a wall there are the ski-jumpers. But ski-jumping isn't as dangerous as it sounds. There are more people killed or injured each year hunting sharks with knives or playing Russian roulette, than in slat sailing. In a recent article Art Devlin claimed jumpers are hurt only once in every thousand jumps, but Lloyds of London is still loath to take any policies in the ski-jumping field...
Tobogganing, sleigh-riding, and ice fishing provide plenty of sport for the non-skier, while dog-sled races and horse racing on ice have been known to lure even slat fiends from the trail...