Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well, making connections with the city water system, and putting in a cement platform at the bottom of the spring. On this platform will sit an iron tank filled out of the city mains on a float system. From the tank water will be taken by a wooden pump, a replica of the old one. Pieces for this were purchased in various parts of New Hampshire, and the average age of the new water lifter should be 20 years...
...printed page examining one letter after another in rapid succession. The light passes through a lens, thence to a slotted, motor-driven disk which analyzes the shape of the letter. Then a photo-electric cell converts the light into electric current. The reader places his hand on a wooden box so that it rests against a row of nine small glass beads. The electric current causes tiny rods to push up momentarily through holes in the beads. The position of these rods corresponds to the letter which is being translated. Besides offering an unlimited choice of reading matter, Inventor Ranseen...
...taxes would favor big corporations against the smaller firms; third-that the measure would increase the difficulties for firms with impaired capital and would be disastrous to the small, growing firm; fourth-that there were so many loopholes in the bill that a John Davis could drive the wooden horse of Troy through its provisions...
Alumni requests for the restoration of the old wooden pump which stood in the Yard have been taken note of by University officials and it will be set up in its original form as a Tercentenary celebration feature. The pump stood approximately opposite the north entry of Hollis Hall and was constantly used by students until 1901 when it was blown up by dynamite and completely demolished...
Strangest sculpture of the show is able Warren Wheelock's wooden head of William Randolph Hearst from whose eye-sockets shockingly jut two red corks. Title: Hearst Sees...