Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening of honors at the Harvard Club of Boston last night, Gene Kinasewich was named Captain-elect of the varsity hockey team. Dave Johnston, Gerry Jorgenson, and goalie Godfrey Wood were also singled out for special awards at the post-season celebration...
Among the top five individual contestants were William C. Waterhouse and John Wood from Harvard. According to the competition's rules, the American Mathematical Association will select one of these five to receive a $3,000 grant for study at the University's Graduate School of Mathematics...
...going to write a primer for my four-year-old, who writes phonetically (fonetik-ly). It's going to be called At the Barnyard and have sentences like "You should buff the rough wood on the plough now," and "After the calf laughs the fey jay neighs...
...Republican draws up his chair to a gleaming cherry wood desk upstairs. Thick maroon carpeting cushions his steps, velvet window draperies smother uncouth sounds, gold leaf gilds the ceiling, a $50,000 painting graces the anteroom. His receptionist answers the phone, saying "Governor Andersen's office." But it does not make the Republican feel any better...
Soon the dealers of 57th Street began to besiege him. But Eilshemius, who had inherited a bit of money, had no sense of business. He let his canvases go for pennies to dealers who cleaned up. As his money dwindled, he began painting on bits of newspaper, wood from cigar boxes, even the manuscripts of the strange piano pieces he composed. Finally, in 1921, a full 20 years before his death, he simply gave up painting entirely...