Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mark. As Mr. Takahashi's son, who works in Manhattan, said last week, "Father was always trying to balance the Japanese budget even when we were still little children." Tall and vigorous, emphatically the Great Takahashi, this elder statesman leaped up from his wooden pillow as the mustards broke into his bedroom and shrilled bravely, "What are you trying...
...Japanese of medium height, each with heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and nearly bald head, who went to sleep on wooden pillows in the Premier's Official Residence, one was Premier Admiral Keisuke Okada and the other was his brother-in-law, Colonel Denzo Matsuo...
Track, like crew, is a sport in which effort never ceases. When winter comes, trackmen pull on flannel drawers, pound away on wooden tracks, move inside to practice only when snow covers the boards. Last week the pick of U. S. runners, hurlers and jumpers, including 18 world-record holders and 14 onetime Olympic team members, crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to test their training. The National Amateur Athletic Union championships, always a climax to the indoor season, this year took on ½added significance. Many a youngster decided to show the 100-odd, owl-faced, stiff...
...rejoiced that we had outgrown the aftermath of the Civil War. Those funny figures at parade-rest look absurdly old-fashioned to us now. But do you know the most stolid and wooden and expressionless of them was in a way better sculpture than the wild things that we are setting up today...
...Florida Keys last autumn (TIME, Sept. 16). Since then not a train has run south of the mainland jump-off station of Homestead. The road estimates that nearly $3,000,000 is needed to replace spans and causeways with steel structures, $1,800,000 to do it with wooden trestles. Another $500,000 is needed for other hurricane damage. "After making inquiries of bankers and officials of the RFC," gloomed the bondholders' committee last week, "the receivers report that application for a loan to finance reconstruction of the Extension would not be looked upon favorably." In other words...