Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ickes, who is as tough as anyone in handing out verbal socks, though a little tender on the receiving end, proceeded to tag individual columnists with some typical Ickes' characterizations. Walter Lippmann "would never even break his wooden sword unless he should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous...
...correct their compasses for variation also have to correct them for deviation, a local error caused by magnetic metals (chiefly iron, steel) in their own craft. The Research is unique because she is nonmagnetic in every possible detail, will have infinitesimal local deviation errors. A throwback to the wooden-ship days, she has a hull of teak, bolts, girders and anchor chain of aluminum bronze. Her cooking utensils and tableware are aluminum; her four Diesels (three for auxiliary power, one for propulsion in calms) are of bronze and aluminum. Her only steel is in their crankshafts and cylinders...
Played under practically the same rules, indoor polo differs from outdoor polo in five major respects: three players instead of four; four chukkers instead of eight; smaller field; playing surface of clay, sand and shavings; leather-covered rubber ball instead of a wooden ball...
Shenandoah. Huddled in a fold in the Pennsylvania hills, with bulbous Greek Catholic church domes rising over wooden houses, this once-prosperous anthracite town is rusty, dingy, mournful, too melodramatic to be desolate. The Shenandoah City Colliery, its windows broken, its stacks smokeless, is a wild ruin; Stief's Cut Rate Drug and Quick Lunch occupies the banking room of the defunct Shenandoah Trust Co. But once John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading...
...Paiutes of California and Nevada; weaving and silver work by the Hopis, Navahos, Apaches of the Southwest; bone and tusk carving by the Chinook and other fishermen of the Northwest; magnificent work with buffalo and elk skins by the Sioux, Blackfoot and Crow tribes of the plains; beautifully carved wooden ware of the Eastern Iroquois...