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Word: woodenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Dr. Mather and his former student arrived at the scene, they found in large wooden enclosure had been con- structed, electric search lights set up; and concession stands equipped, while barkers with glaring signs were urging the crowds to view the unknown pre-historic monster in his last resting place for 25 cents per head. The farm looked as if an oil boom had struck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER UNEARTHS MASTODON REMAINS | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...Ault Wooden Ware Co. Cincinnati, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Lincoln, Neb., one Emil A. Glatt, farmer, started building with his own hands "the biggest spite fence in legal history," wooden towers 45 feet high supporting six strands of heavy wire near the top. Reason given by Farmer Glatt for his spite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Spider and Ants | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Down come the attractive little white wooden houses with their neat green shutters Pegasus soars to a new stable, Tragic Muses drag from their familiar haunt, the last of the Arthurian Mohicans packs his kit--the Widow is moving to the Gold Coast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIDOW MOVES | 10/7/1926 | See Source »

...Emperor's coronation was, however, delayed for three years while Japan mourned the death of his father. 'Not until Nov. 10, 1915 did he don the lacquered wooden crown of Japan and proclaim himself Tenno to his ancestors. At that time it was vigorously denied that he suffered from tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vastly Improved | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

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