Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-foot wooden fence! You talk about a hair line...
Down into a musty vault in the basement of Healy Building at Georgetown University in Washington went a little party of Jesuit officials one day last week. Rummaging around among half-forgotten bales and bundles they came across three small dusty wooden boxes which they lugged out to the light to open. Inside each box the Jesuits beheld 40 or 50 brown bits of bones. In the same basement of Healy Building were documents telling how in 1843 Pope Gregory XVI sent Georgetown University the holy bones of three Roman Catholic martyrs. Georgetown had tucked the boxes away without opening...
Science has long been aware of the little street once called the Rue des Postes. Its present name is the Rue Pierre-Curie. In a shabby wooden building at its end, 36 years ago, Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie and her husband Pierre discovered radium...
...swaddling clothes. Eight years later bearded, brooding Pierre Curie was killed by a truck. Now Mme Curie, twice a Nobel Prizewinner, devotes her time to managing the Institut du Radium's Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing at the University of Paris. The old wooden building where she once worked is gone. But in one of the Institute's new buildings on the same street Irene, with her brilliant husband Jean Frédéric Joliot, continues to pry into matter's secrets in much the same way Father & Mother Curie did before...
...hard wooden pillow General Araki pondered these things and the flame of his fighting loyalty burned high. "I am too weak now," he said. "Another must take my place." This other turned out to be a tiger man more militant if possible than invalid Araki-hale & hearty General Senjuro Hayashi, Inspector General of Military Education...