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Word: woodenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short pants, James E. Glynn used to shunt wooden blocks across the kitchen floor and make believe he was turning the big wheels of commerce. But when he had to go to work right after grammar school as an extra hand on the New York Central Railroad, he began to feel that his dream would never come true; a guy could never be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Dead End | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Actually, the Modern Language Center's official address is 5 Divinity Avenue. Frisbie Place is an alley that runs behind the Germanic Museum off Divinity Avenue and the language center, housed in a large wooden frame structure that used to be a family home, is the only building...

Author: By Petter B. Taub, | Title: Now in Fourth Year, Modern Language Center Mixes Scholarship with Informal Atmosphere | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Emerson Hall has two sets of heavy wooden, doors, both quite pleasing to the eye. As doors go they are fairly difficult to open and as classes come and go, they are damn near impossible to open. This is because everybody and his grandmother stands outside while classes change and discusses the weather and headlines for just a moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Door Policy | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Last week, on the eve of getting his medal, Simon took cold, a day later died. In a dark wood coffin draped with the Union Jack, he was buried in a pet cemetery at Ilford, Essex. A wooden marker at his head bore the epitaph: "In Honored Memory of Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Honored Memory | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Shuri castle; all that remains of the ancient home of Okinawa's rulers is an iron drinking fountain shaped like a dragon with gaping jaws out of which pours a clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open. It has a student and faculty body of 90; cases of books from the U.S are pouring into its neat library. Tall, straight-featured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Forgotten Island | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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