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Word: woodenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smokers. If smoking were limited to one room, perhaps in the basement, the cost of effective ventilation would not be extravagant and it would be a considerable convenience to all girls. Another universal complaint, which will probably not be fully corrected in the new scheme, concerns the straight wooden chairs. They might have done very well in the more straight-laced days forty years ago, but they seen uncomfortable now. These two defects should be considered before final plans are crystallized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Radcliffe Library | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

...casual athlete who can only operate with bursts of energy. The technique, practised wherever there is ice in New England, is to chip a simple hole in the ice, drop a hook and bait into the water. At the other end of the line you attach a wooden bob with a violent red flag on a short length of stick and lay same on the ice next to the hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Schusser Finds Bliss In Other Sports | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

Rome and Falk have been looking for the leg, a wooden shoe-maker's model, since the Dartmouth weekend. At that time the trophy was stolen from their Kirkland H-33 suite, and the two guessed that some light-fingered Dartmouths had done the deed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Finds Gam on the Lam After Three Months Astray | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...from Racine, Wisconsin, and said, "I know a girl in New York who had a wooden leg, but wouldn't wear it. Is it possible that you have gotten hers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Finds Gam on the Lam After Three Months Astray | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...county jail at Lawton, Okla., a man charged with embezzlement passed the time by hacking away his wooden leg with a razor. To questioners, he retorted shortly: "It's mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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