Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what degree German disarmament has been carried out. While our western neighbor [France] a few weeks ago held two big maneuvers in each of which 50,000 men participated [TIME, Sept. 15], together more than the whole German army . . . our maneuver comprised one infantry division, one cavalry division, wooden cannons in place of heavy artillery, armored motor cars in place of tanks, and no airplanes. ... It is not a German army that is threatening European peace...
...College classes, and perhaps one or more of his tutors, all presumably good neighbour who can be dropped in on at reasonable hours. This is a palace revolution from the bad old days when undergraduatos were abandoned to miscellaneous College or private domormitories and nondescript houses, even three-decker wooden tenements, eating at one-armed lunches, seeking only little sets of personal acquaintances, often very narrow ones, and tutors except professionally or at a starched reception. Such were the conditions which prompted Professor George Pierce Baker to observe with praiseworthy candor one Easter recess, when a party of us were...
...Richardson '34, at Dedham; S. S. Sands '34, at Aiken; and P. A. Shaw '34. No regular schedule will be attempted in the fall, with most of the time being devoted to a few practices weekly on the field behind the Business School, work for beginners on the wooden horse, and other elementary instruction...
...Domingo last week to help hollow-eyed President Rafael Trujillo scavenge his hurricane smitten city. Seventy-five Royal Marines from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...
...Gaelic, do not bother to shear their wild sheep but pull the wool out by the fistful. They live on potatoes and sea birds. In winter, when the island is inaccessible, the St. Kildans maintained communication with the outside world by means of "sea messages." Letters placed in strong wooden boxes were thrown from the sheer cliffs. The prevailing westerly winds generally carried these to the Hebrides or the mainland of Scotland in one week. For hundreds of years St. Kilda has belonged to the MacLeods, who, living on the nearly as rigorous Isle of Skye, have seen nothing untoward...