Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walks machinistic materialism has not ceased from encroaching upon this territory. For several years now, asphalt has been replacing wood for these purposes. This year, in spite of the depression, no little progress has been made along these lines. But three years ago, when the length of the wooden walks were last measured, there were almost seven miles of them. Now there are baroly over five miles...
Symbolic of the difference between their jobs are the gavels of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. To tap for order the Vice President uses a small wooden cylinder about the size of a large salt shaker which he holds between his fingers. Under the Senate rules, he votes only to break a tie. He is not permitted to join in legislative debate or make any kind of speech. His utterances are confined to cut & dried parliamentary rulings which a Senate majority can overturn at will. On his Senate throne he is a glorified policeman, keeping peace...
...three years to run. But if this 25th opening night should be his last it would not do to break his record. The curtain call sounded and since it was the season's opening Mr. Gatti left his office, where he could have heard the opera through a wooden cylinder contraption attached to his desk, and took a chair in the wings. It was a battered, straight-backed office chair, squeezed into space twice too small for his massive frame, but there he had sat and seen great Enrico Caruso enact the bearded Jew in Halevy...
...books will admit students to the temporary wooden stands that have been erected on the field...
...Bowl, without the extra wooden seats, accommodates approximately 71,000 persons, leaving 16,000 seats as yet unsold. These remaining tickets are on public sale in New York City, and therefore no report has been submitted as to how many have been sold. Last year, when the game was played at the Harvard Stadium, which seats over 57,000 persons, a capacity crowd attended...