Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able to cure almost any kind of ailment with two small pieces of "magnetized" metal. A couple of centuries ago, his "magnetic tractors" allegedly drew diseases out of such celebrities as George Washington. He was discredited only when his magnetic tractors were discovered to be two pieces of painted wood. Since Elisha Perkins' day, medical charlatanism has made great strides, notes Dr. William H. Gordon in the medical magazine GP. Frequently the quackery is keyed to news of medical progress. Use of radioactive isotopes in medicine, for example, inspired some Comanche County, Texas entrepreneurs to sell packages of their...
Such coin counting has spawned sincere flattery: imitation Disneylands are shooting up across the country. The best are the brainchildren of drawling, blunt-talking Texan C. V. Wood, 38, a onetime industrial engineer whose survey on Disneyland's prospects so impressed the master that he was invited in to build the park. At present, Wood is supervising construction of five others (including Denver's Magic Mountain, Great Southwest Park near Dallas, Montana Magica in Caracas), has half a dozen more in the planning stage. This week, his latest is open: $4,000,000 Pleasure Island, 14 miles north...
...statuettes from the mud in the streets, won a government student grant of $11 a month and took himself to Paris, where miraculously he found himself accepted as a temporary pupil at the Beaux-Arts. He remained a student for 14 years. To stay alive, he sold coal and wood, painted houses, acted as a "jockey" at the greyhound races (he held the leashes...
...Eastern teams agreed to compete in benefit games for unemployment relief, Harvard, following its President's firm policy, refused to go along. Later, however, voluntary collections were allowed at some home games. After a tight 7-6 victory over Dartmouth, the unbeaten Crimson eleven, led by All-American Barry Wood, confidently faced their New Haven rivals in the season's traditional final game--and lost, by a heartbreaking 3-0 score at the hands of Albie Booth...
Football came in like a lion, with 200 Freshmen going out in a feverishly excited season. But the last few games saw humiliating, lop-sided upsets for a mediocre season, enlivened by a now-familiar discussion of the merits of collegiate football in general. Barry Wood's What Price Football? came out to answer, among other arguments, the suggestion of Henry Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation that football be abandoned in favor of horseracing...