Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect home industry against cheap Italian tombstones. Parliament in 1932 placed a duty of 33⅓% on imports of stone and wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists...
...withdrawal of five guests who had previously accepted was also announced last night: Louis Gallup, at table 5; Richardson Wood, at table 5; Emanuel A. Goldenweiser, at table 1; Daniel Bell at table 4; and Francis B. Sayre, at table 3. Sayre has been replaced by Alexander Dye, head of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce...
...hopper and advancing them on the basis of time spent in classes. Elated at the proved reliability of the objective, multiple-response tests they used to measure students' knowledge, the report's authors, Dr. William S. Learned, a staff member of the Foundation, and Dr. Ben D. Wood, Director of Collegiate Educational Research at Columbia College, urged that such tests replace the traditional marks given by professors...
John L. Barr Jr. '39 achieved golfdom's greatest thrill yesterday afternoon when he scored a hole-in-one on the 210-yard 12th hole at the Belmont Country Club. He used a number four wood in accomplishing the feat...
...tanks began to pop. Soon the red-hot roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...