Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago on March 20 Charles William Eliot stepped out on the temporary wooden platform in front of University Hall to face three thousand students filling the quadrangle from John Harvard's statue to the steps of Hollis Hall. To them he left his last legacy of advice, wisdom garnered in ninety years of life...
...which have presented themselves and which have sometimes demanded a change in plan. The decision was made to build the court--the principal architectural feature of the interior--of Italian Travertine. Early in the spring of 1926 an opportunity arose to purchase a very beautiful, early sixteenth-century French wooden ceiling which had originally been a part of a house in Dijon. This is admirably suited to the large hall on the main floor. Several generous subscriptions have helped us to meet these added expenses...
...trainload of U. S. marines moving from Chinandega to Leon. No hair of a U. S. head was injured but U. S. news organs favorable to the Coolidge-Kellogg policy began to whoop up war: "American marines run the gauntlet of a leaden hail. . . . Bullets plowed through the wooden coaches of the train. . . . The marines' commander organized a punitive expedition and instructed his men to chase, shoot or capture the attackers...
...read TIME from cover to cover, and to show you how up to date it is in getting the news, I got last week's issue on Friday Eve., Jan. 7, and read of the lady having her wooden leg taken away from her on account of not keeping her payment up. The next day, Sat., Jan. 8, I read the same account in my daily paper as per clipping attached. That's going some, isn't it? JOHN VIAZANKO...
...their red and gold motors. All electricity was shut off, and in the gathering dusk thousands of lanterns winked and iron braziers flared along the funeral way. The hearse, 23 ft. long, 12 ft. high and 12 ft. wide rumbled forth, drawn by oxen, and emitting from its wooden wheel-hubs four differently pitched notes: "the sacred mournful sounds." When the great funeral pavilion was reached, the body was placed upon an altar and the Emperor bowed low before it. Picking up a branch of evergreen he placed it on the altar, beside the body, thus symbolizing that the dead...