Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last month their conviction was affirmed by the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, and appeal to the Supreme Court is in prospect. The evidence against them was the finding of a loaded rifle, several wooden guns for drilling recruits, a bomb and much literature urging revolt against U. S. oppression...
...buildings of Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (contact points) 63 sit-downers who had previously repulsed an assault by 125 deputy sheriffs (TIME, March 1) were suddenly awakened at 5:15 a. m. by a bombardment of gas shells and grenades. Looking out they beheld a strange object, a 20-ft. wooden tower erected on the rear end of a truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their noses with wet rags...
...Wooden Horse was not used for fighting but as a place of concealment in which Greeks hid until it was drawn into Troy...
William Rush was not long satisfied with figurehead carving. Bemoaning the fact that he never had time to learn marble cutting, he did portraits of Washington, Franklin. Voltaire, Rousseau, Tilliam Penn, Lafayette, even carved a huge wooden crucifix for the Catholic Church of St. Augustine in Philadelphia. In 1844 an anti-Catholic mob destroyed...
According to Chief John J. Darvis of Engine Company 15 the first fire was caused by wooden studding which had been built too close to a defective chimney leading up from a restaurant below. The blase, which never got beyond a suffocating smudge, was quickly controlled...