Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly inspired, the victim enlists, is despatched to an Army camp. He lives in wooden shacks, built as temporary barracks during the War, looking like a collection of senile packing boxes, or in tents. When not drilling, he is called on to repair worn-out plumbing systems and putter around creaking stables. Many an officer, living with his family at such a camp, has had to spend his own money to make his house livable. Having no Garden of Eden, the U. S. defenders take their fun where they find it. At Fort Douglas, they have invented the game...
...which came to pass one day in the German city of Rotenburg. General Tilly was about to sack the place when he was arrested by the spectacle of a burgher emptying a tall stein of beer in one prodigious gulp. In his admiration the General spared the town and wooden figures in the clock tower re-enact the Meistertrunk each noon to gaping posterity in the square below. Jeremiah, MacSweeney, and a large company of well known hermits, on the other hand, increased their reputations by consuming a perilous minimum. But naturally in both courses the attendant circumstances...
Enright, however, pointed out that there is a possibility that the suspended wooden track might see some service before the outdoor track season commenced. He also said that the cage would be valuable not only to the baseball and the track teams, nut that is also would be the ideal location for the football team to hold secret practice, and for workouts on rainy days...
...first automobile which drew up before the wooden platform were President Eliot and C. J. Hubbard...
...week, wooden tugs armored with iron plates gnawed at the solidifying ice. Masters poured oil into the waters to retard the rate of freezing. It takes more cold to freeze fouled water than pure. But the weather was 20° below zero and the tugs had to do their work. They would back off 300 to 400 feet from the pack. Then with a snarl of steam they would dash at the ice, only to be bounced by their own recoil. Yet at each attack a bit of ice did crumble to their bites...