Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News that motor trucks can now be made to run on kindling wood instead of gasoline reached Joseph Stalin some time ago, fired the Dictator's keen brain. The system was pioneered in Italy and last year Benito Mussolini ordered all busses in the Kingdom converted to burn wood...
...33rd anniversary of the Typhoon of 1905, the Empire was smitten by a no less violent typhoon which whirled through the neighboring cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, blew millions of tons of seawater over the breakwaters and into these cities. The dead numbered 99, thousands of flimsy wood & paper Japanese homes collapsed. Modern skyscrapers stood firm, but railway and electric services were suspended over much of the Empire. Japanese reported as a notable disaster the uprooting of a clump of ancient willow trees near the moat of the Imperial Palace of their Divine Emperor...
...kindling is transformed into gas in an ungainly looking "generator" as the bus lumbers along. This gas drives a conventional gasoline engine on which the liquid carburetor has been replaced by a gas carburetor. Last week Dictator Stalin approved orders to build in Russia within two years 56,000 wood-burning motor trucks...
...getting people all over the U. S. interested in art as an everyday part of living and working. To accomplish the first aim, the Index of American Design was set up in January 1936, and to date has employed about 500 watercolorists and draftsmen in digging up old wood carving, weathervanes, costumes, toys, needlework, china, and other craft objects of which more than 8,000 renderings, of marvelous exactitude, have already been made. This compilation is to U. S. design what the Code Napoléon was to French...
...long letter containing her views on education. If the college is to be rebuilt on the old lines, she says, her guinea might as well go for matches to burn it down. She would like it to be a "poor college," with no chapels, lectures or degrees, made of wood instead of stained glass and ivy, teaching music, literature, conversation, cooking. But she knows that the graduates of colleges must get jobs; she is too familiar with 19th-Century methods of educating women to be indignant about 20th-Century methods. She sends the guinea with one condition: that the young...