Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SOLIDAY Wood River...
Married. Ashley Cooper, 22, Australian tennis player, world's top-ranked amateur, 1958 champion at both Forest Hills and Wimbledon; and Helen Wood, 20, Miss Australia of 1957; two days after Australia lost the Davis Cup to the U.S. (see SPORT); in a wedding mobbed by 5,000 fans; in Brisbane...
...asked mildly: "Is that a badness?" Sticking only managed to mutter something about "remarkably little to do with Christianity." The Lawrenceman went on placidly, with wide-open eyes staring into the distance: "Perhaps. Yet there is a ceremony of departure, a sacrifice. On the hill they lit the wood fire to the morning...
...profit was by no means confined to the poor boy who made good; it also blessed many a well-to-do heir apparent. Among those whom service helped equip for heavy jobs waiting back home: Armour's President William Wood Prince (artillery captain), Ford's Vice President Benson Ford (Air Corps captain), IBM Boss Thomas Watson Jr. (Air Corps pilot). While an aircraft-carrier deck officer in three Pacific battles, Indiana's J. Irwin Miller, 49, gained the confidence it took to build the family owned Cummins Engine Co., Inc. into the largest U.S. maker of truck...
...Alta Vista Elementary School, a twelve-classroom $154,213 addition designed by Sarasota's Harvard-trained Victor Lundy, 35, with laminated-wood beams and arches supporting a butterfly roof that cantilevers...