Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proportions, some suppression of details in the various gadgets, but to ordinary observers it is a literal copy of the actual gun in stone, much as might have been made by measurement by any competent stonemason. Artistically, it has less than the merit of a child's wooden locomotive, because in that there is simplification determined by the material...
...funniest place on earth, a playground for old and young," so its owners describe Steeplechase Pier at Atlantic City where one may have his hat blown off, his skirts blown up, ride on a merry-go-round, walk through a revolving barrel, slide down a chute into a wooden bowl, or scare his wits out of himself by a ride on a roller coaster?all by paying a modest admission fee of 50c. Strangely enough over the great amusement hall is built an apartment where the owners of the entertainment dwell, and where they have a little window where they...
Competitors are expected to wear white flannel trousers and sweaters, preferably white. Entrance to the Stadium for those in the competition will be through the coaches and players' gate in the wooden stands...
Seats on the wooden stands will be put on sale next week and all late applications are now being attended to and will also draw tickets for the temporary stands...
...Compare the splendid Freshman dormitories of to-day, the rehabilitated Massachusetts, the two new little dormitories that flank Holden Chapel, with, let us say, Holyoke House, and you will have some idea of the measure of the improvement. Compare the wooden stands on Holmes or Jarvis Field with the Stadium, or the Anderson Bridge with the rickety plank affair that used to span the river, and you will see how far we have gone...