Word: timber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand members of the American Society for Testing Materials (A.S.T.M.) went to French Lick, Ind., last week for their 25th annual convention. There, in haunts usually filled by politicians clandestinely trading their influences, testers frankly presented 80 reports and papers on various metals, cements, ceramics, paints, oils, petroleum products, timber, coal, coke, rubber, textiles...
...class by himself. Second and third should be a good fight between Briggs of Yale, Smith of Yale, and King and Flaksman of Harvard. The dope, however, points to the two Elis in second and third places. The High Hurdles we will have to concede to Yale's four timber toppers, Sheldon, Edwards. Campbell or Game. In the Low Hurdles, a radical prediction will be amade, Sherman of Yale should win, out I'am placing Tupper of Harvard second ahead of Edwards. Tupper never ran a Low Hurdles race before the Interclass Meet two weeks ago, and his showing against...
...yard run with Home and Swope, the speedy Green quarter miler. The Dartmouth aggregation is stronger this season than last and counts on victories in the hurdles, high jump 880 yard run, and the javelin. Wells, holder of the indoor intercollegiate hurdling championship, is expected to lead the timber toppers in both the high and low hurdling events. Maynard is conceded the advantage in the high jump, while Coach Hillman expects Smith to break the worsted in the halfmile race...
...duplicate General Motors -by means of Consolidated Motors Inc., which he has just had incorporated in Delaware. And "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the keystone of the great General Motors," he intends to use the new Star Six as the sill timber of his new structure. For supports, braces and superstructures to this he can furnish other companies that he controls-Durant Motors Inc. (makers of Star and Durant motor cars), American Plate Glass Co., Motors Parts Corp., New Process Gear Co., Warner Corp., Locomobile Co. of America (Locomobiles), Adams Axle Co., Mason...
When the U. S. was very young,* wooden bowls were turned where "dish timber" grew and "minifers" (pins) came whence brass could be drawn into wire. New England resourcefulness produced "Yankee notions" which found a ready market with the agrarian Dutch, the simple Quakers, the luxury-loving Southerners. Bright young Yankees left home with a packful of Neighbor Brown's nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime...