Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Played with steel studded wooden balls as big as baseballs. The player bowls his first ball (with an underhand, twisting throw) toward a tiny object ball. His opponent strives to bowl nearer the object ball, by shrewd control or oftener by knocking the enemy away...
...rays over the colonades. There were two possibilities. Either the goal posts would go after a vicious struggle, or the goal posts would stand after an equally titanic contest. One implied physical effort, the other a mental battle. Both were in a way unsatisfactory. If the victors took the wooden standards they were unconscionably rude. If they left them alone they were incredibly indifferent. Their dilemma, however, was soothing to the less fortunate and poorer. It left some thing to say. Now that it is all gone, steel and stone will hurt their bones, but they can only bend them...
...magnificant improvement to the property along Derby Avenue. The new baseball stands containing 6,000 covered seats and 6,000 bleacher seats will be ready for the first baseball game next spring. These new stands are symmetrical and fire proof and will be a great improvement over the old wooden stands which were built in a very irregular fashion. The new stands will provide 1453 more covered seats than were available in the old stand. The varsity baseball diamond and field which has been considered one of the best baseball playing fields in the country has been preserved...
Another reproduction which attracted Dr. Zimmermann's attention was the cast of the Nuremberg Madonna, the original wooden statue of which, made in the work-shop of Peter Vischer, is conceded to be the finest early German sculpture, and is in the Nuremberg Germanic Museum...
...torturing North Carolina 13-0; Georgia burning Auburn 33-3. At Richmond spectators eyes were glued on Al Barnes, Virginia Military Institute halfback as he crashed 21 yards through University of Maryland. There was another crash. Through a great ragged hole in the massed audience a section of the wooden stands disappeared. Players, horrified, forgot the game; rushed over to assist the rescue. Four score persons were injured; over a dozen seriously...