Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayors came & went. In 1869 the transcontinental railroad arrived and the few San Franciscans who had managed to make and hold their fortunes built wooden castles on Nob Hill. The thousands who had not, organized. Subsequently the organized put Eugene E. Schmitz of the Musicians' Union into City Hall...
...Tightrope. Headlines in Paris papers had trumpeted: "Tomorrow the world is going to blow up," and Scientist Robert Esnault-Pelterie had warned that Crossroads might well start a fatal chain reaction. On the appointed Day of Wrath, a load of wooden wine caskets broke loose from a truck in Casablanca, French Morocco, and hollowly thundered on the cobbled street. That touched off riots: thousands of Arabs were sure that the Angel Israfil was summoning them to their doomsday tightrope, whence (so said the Prophet) the damned would fall into hell...
...designing seismographs to measure earthquakes, he decided that there wasn't much difference between a seismograph and a fiddle "except one deals with slow movements and the other with rapid movements." For his scientific cello he mounted a conventional fingerboard and electrified bridge on a heavy wooden frame and stood the whole thing on a metal peg leg. Instead of tones, Dr. Benioff's cello produces electrical impulses which are transmitted to loudspeakers. It has a wider range than a standard cello, but not the deep brown tone...
...indeed been close to bankruptcy. It had suffered from manpower shortages, lack of materials, and Allied bombs (60% of shoe production was knocked out). When the Czech Government nationalized Bata, along with most of Czechoslovakia's big industries, there were only 800 employes at work producing wooden shoes. In the first two months of operation, nationalized Bata lost some 132,000,000 crowns...
Your writer created quite a stir locally with his reference to the 1911 locomotive and two wooden cars tied up here . . . by the recent rail strike [TIME, June...