Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Results, All summer Saxony's toiling 120 have marched out to her dikes each day in squads. Sometimes waist deep in water, they have driven piles with heavy mallets, carted sand and stones in awkward wooden trays. Cost to the Saxon Government has worked out at 3 marks per day. Of this, 50 pfennigs represents the man's wage, plus 2 marks 50 pfennigs for his food. As former Saxon army barracks were used, and as the 120 washed their own bedding, the cost of lodging them was figured...
...their own merits, or with their old, softened colors had something of the ingenuous attractiveness of the early work of the French Customs Agent Henri Rousseau. There were few such pictures for sale at the Folk Art Gallery. Instead there was a wide variety of cigar store Indians, wooden decoy ducks,* hobby horses, cast iron hitching posts, cast iron stove plates, weather vanes and examples of tatting and painting on velvetEN...
Unlike Oscar Wilde's greedy councillors, citizens of Vienna grieved one chilly day last week for dead and dying swallows. If the swallows were too weak to fly over the snowy Alps, Vienna would help them. Children and adults collected hapless birds, assembled them in wooden crates. Airplanes carried the crated swallows, thousands of them, to warm Venice, where they were fed and freed...
That the land between Broadway and Cambridge Streets where the Rogers Building is located is the best site for a fire station to cover the University district has been disputed by some experts, Lovejoy stated. Fires occur most frequently in the area near the river, among the smaller wooden frame buildings, and these must be reached through crowded Quincy and Brattle Squares...
Coolies, soldiers, and hundreds of round-eyed little boys stood in the market place at Tsinanfu and marveled. Bent over a barrel was the Honorable Wu Cha-ding, Commissioner of the Wenchang Bureau of Public Safety. Standing over him was a strong-armed soldier with a broad wooden paddle in his hand who lustily belabored Mr. Wu's quivering bottom...