Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-day U. S. itinerary of Great Britain's King & Queen next June, went Captain Alan Frederick Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), the King's assistant private secretary. Asked if he were related to Henry George Charles Lascelles, Lord Harewood (rhymes with Gar Wood), brother-in-law of the King, he answered yes. "How?" ''Quite legitimately...
...Lawrence Wood Robert Jr., called "Chip" because his father was called "Wood," is an ebullient, convivial Georgian of 51 who has lived up to his nickname. In 1933 Chip left his Atlanta architectural and engineering firm, which had consulted in some $250,000,000 worth of building projects before Depression, to help Businessman William Woodin as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Sober Henry Morgenthau relieved him of most of his important duties. But in Washington, where business often mixes with politics, Chip was meanwhile establishing a reputation as the Capital's greatest little mixer. After newshawks caught...
Never quite recovered from reparations days, when France and Belgium pinched the best of its equipment, German State Railways was in critical condition when Germany annexed Austria and threw on its back the burden of the dilapidated Austrian Federal Railways. On some of the hopelessly debt-burdened Austrian lines wood-burners were still being used...
Sink-&-Float. If a handful of bird shot mixed with sawdust is thrown into a pail of water, the shot will sink, the sawdust float. Reason: the specific gravity of water is greater than wood's, less than lead's. The flotation method of separating ores from waste, using liquids of higher specific gravity than water, has been used for nearly a century. For over three decades E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has been trying to devise an economical flotation method for separating impurities such as shale and slate from low-grade anthracite coal. For "parting...
...roaring his last speech to Macduff. His bosom heaved, and his voice thundered out over the audience, rolling majestically up even to the furthermost balcony. His bushy red eyebrows beetled noticeably. Everything had gone against him. His wife had died pitiably. Ten thousand English soldiers had brought Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane. And he was fighting a man not born of a woman. But, despite the witches' warning which must have been ringing in his ears, Macbeth bellowed his own obituary: "Lay on, Macduff; and damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough...