Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the far field of a war that was never a war returned to the U. S. last week 75 warriors?each in a flag-draped wooden box. Twenty-nine of them were nameless. Icy cold blew the dawn wind as the S. S. President Roosevelt churned slowly up New York harbor, but a balmy breeze it was compared to the blasts of the North Russian winter of 1918-19 when these U. S. soldiers died fighting the Red Army. After eleven years and by dint of diligent search by the Veterans of Foreign Wars their bodies had been exhumed...
...since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...
...years returning to the outsider visiting the impression of the University comes in the form of a campus. At Harvard it is called The Yard. The original Yard has expanded its glorious elms dying of the gypsy moth have given place to red oaks or other trees the ancient wooden fence is replaced by delightful wrought iron and brick. Coming out of the subway one crosses riskily the traffic torrent in "Mass" Avenue turns to look across the hurly burly of what was once a quiet country square enters the Yard. There past a copper beech lies a long rectangle...
...wire" (tipoff) he learned that Ryan and three others in old Sing Sing were concocting a plot. Slyly he watched them. Suddenly the four were seized, their cells searched. In one were found draftsman's designs of implements to be used in an escape. In another was discovered a wooden key model from which a duplicate of the keeper's key was to be made. In the power-house was unearthed a tomahawk-shaped utensil for short-circuiting all the lights in the old cellblock. Said Warden Lawes: "This was a scheme for a general jail delivery...
...England benders. There were a lot of them last night all right, and of course I wasn't idle. That is to say I was very busy predicting, and if you are smart you will be able to bet safely on this somewhat Delphic statement: "A wooden booth is the key to success. Choose keenly and you will do well...