Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, there are machine, electric and sheet metal shops, and a wood-working mill. A key shop, which makes thousand of keys each year, contains a copy of every one of the keys in the University--estimated in the tens of thousands, is located on the second floor. "A student could go anywhere if he ever got into this vault," Roberts notes...
...last visit in October 1953, he planned to go to Hollywood and write an opera with Igor Stravinsky. But first he stopped in New York to make some money by repeating his enormously successful readings of his "play for voices," Under Milk Wood, at Manhattan's Y.M.H.A...
...through prose, with a flashing of fins and a show of unexpected twists that could have made him famous as a prose writer if he had never so much as rhymed hell and seashell. Some of the stories sing of the same Welsh town he saluted in Under Milk Wood; others are rambling, obscurely symbolic excursions into weirder regions. In Skin Trade it was Thomas' sardonic intention to tell how a youngster from the provinces lands in London, much as he himself did. Before the boy sets out for the big city, he daydreams about what it will...
...must dare police regulations to provide the scattered trash, and this is for their greater credit. If the Cambridge City Council decides to unclutter Linden Street for more parking space, the Social Relations men might well visit the exhibit at the Student Activity Center. A few occupants of the wood framed house have kindled the building's hallways in case there is ever sudden need for its disposal...
...exploded from the change in air pressure. Two of three steel industrial buildings were ruined. A doorknob had been torn from a door and cast half through a wall, so that there was a doorknob where there was no door. Each of two typical American houses, one brick, one wood, was a pile of rubble and jackstraws. A mannequin still sat at a kitchen table in another house, but her wig had been stripped off; it was found in the remains of the refriger ator; another dummy was skewered with jagged glass. Cars were smashed as if a monster fist...