Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Clyde V. Cessna, 74, pioneer aviator, plane designer and manufacturer, founder (in 1927) of the Cessna Aircraft Co. in Rago, Kans. Cessna built his first wooden monoplane in 1911, launched his own business by designing and producing a cantilever monoplane which won every race it entered in 1928 and 1929. He retired in 1934, later saw the company become the nation's largest manufacturer of commercial light planes...
...swing its arms and recite: "I'm Robert the Robot, the Mechanical Man." Ideal also has a "radio"-equipped FBI car that broadcasts "Calling all cars . . ." Among electric trains, the newest is Toyland Products' train for three-to six-year-olds. It consists of a string of wooden cars, driven by three flashlight batteries, that go forward and back around an oval of fiber on which is printed an electric circuit. Price...
Even venerable Memorial Hall has had its share of flames. In 1874a hot pot of melted fat caught fire, filled the kitchens in the hall with smoke, and nearly burned through the wooden floor into the main dining hall upstairs...
...narrow escape forced the Corporation to take stops to prevent future fires in Harvard's wooden buildings. A fire-proof floor was installed in Mem Hall and Boylston Hall got new brick walls. Fire escapes went in, ropes were provided for dormitory rooms, and ladders and waterproof covers for furniture were placed in the Yard...
There was nothing outwardly magnificent about Marc Andrew Mitscher, boy or man. A dull student in Oklahoma City schools, he was dropped from Annapolis as a disciplinary problem, got back in only to graduate at the "wooden end of the line." "Pete" Mitscher was already bald and beginning to look wizened when, at 29, he won his wings. Thereafter, throughout the monotonous, between-war years of fitness reports and training procedures, he lived only for naval aviation. As the first U.S. Navy officer assigned to command flying operations from the deck of a ship (the converted collier Langley), Pete Mitscher...