Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FRANK H. WOOD...
Latter-day classicists have summoned up a nostalgic vision of classic Rome as an uncluttered prospect of soaring marble temples, each as immaculate as a white plaster model. The reality of the marketplace was far different. Most of its buildings were built of brick, wood and dingy stone until almost the beginning of the Christian era. The city itself, with a population that surpassed present-day Rome's 1,750,700, squeezed into an even smaller circumference, was a terrifying tangle of pedestrians, soldiers, horses, lurching sedan chairs and carts...
BATH'S CIRCUS AND ROYAL CRESCENT, finished within six years of the Place de la Concorde, was one of Britain's supreme building triumphs. It resulted from the combined efforts of an unknown road builder, architect and artist named John Wood and his son John Wood Jr., who had taken over the cramped, run-down town of Bath, site of an ancient Roman spa, and rebuilt it into a showpiece of Georgian architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval...
...lead. His time: 3:57.2, smashing the old 3:58 world record set by Australia's John Landy in 1954. In the first four-man finish under four minutes, Delany was clocked at 3:58.8, Jungwirth at 3:59.1 and England's Ken Wood...
Analysis rapidly disclosed that the written material consisted of charms and prayers; the other objects were symbols, principally of the five oldtime Chinese elements or forces essential to life (fire, water, air, wood, metal). But no document was found to show when Golden Boy had been fashioned, though rough chisel marks on the wood were typical of techniques used in the 10th and 11th centuries. From the statue's contents, the scholars concluded that the first operation was probably performed some 300 years ago by Tibetan monks, who installed a new set of innards...