Word: wood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Bowler McGeorge and some of the boys decided to have a try at the slick alleys and new wood at the American Bowling Congress up in Cleveland. It was Bowler McGeorge's first A.B.C. appearance. When the crowd from Kent arrived, the A.B.C. was rumbling through its third week, and up to then nothing spectacular had happened. Nothing McGeorge and the Kent men did in the five-man play served to jog the tourney out of its doldrums. Mac, for example, rolled 175-153-214 for a 542 total. Next day in the doubles, with a fellow...
This week Manhattan's Downtown Gallery displayed Steig's latest humorous accomplishments: 14 small, irresistible figures carved in mahogany, walnut, orange, pear and apple wood. He began doing them three years ago when he married and moved out to live in the country in Sherman, Conn. He and his brother, Henry Anton Steig, pruned their fruit trees, stacked the dead wood in a shed. One day William picked up a chunk and whittled it. Thereafter all male carvings were known in the family as Jason, female carvings as Tessie...
...Freshman Red Book, Frederick W. H. Bradley, chairman of the Circulation Board announced last night. The nine were Albert M. Chandler, Jr., Robert F. Cutting, 2nd, William P. Jacobs, William D. Jones, Harrison F. Lyman, Jr., Nicholas Savage, Gilbert A. S. Stewart, Jr., Boland M. Urfirer and William Wood...
...once called Bill Douglas the "outstanding professor of law of the nation." Douglas wrote a textbook and taught three courses to earn his way through Columbia Law School, was graduated No. 2 in his class. For two years with the high-powered Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood he threaded the jungles of corporate law and finance. He went back to teach at Columbia, was called to Yale where he became Sterling Professor, declined an even finer chair at Chicago, went to SEC in 1934 on Joe Kennedy's invitation...
Most of the preliminary details were soon dispensed with, and towards the end of the afternoon session, Messrs. Harlow, Wood, Fesler, Clark, Struck, and their Senior assistants had divided the squad into four teams to run through plays. The first two teams were composed chiefly of Sophomores and Juniors, but with a generous sprinkling of first year...