Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dream of Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle: Some 2,000 acres of meadow and rough woodland just west of Hartford, Conn., cut by boiling trout streams, bordered by the Farmington River. Built thereon, a rough-hewn stone village, copied after old Colonial villages, with heavy-timbered gables, hand-joined by wooden pegs; with split-oak roof-trees, slate-slabbed roofs and other backwoods atmosphere. In this village, a population of hardy schoolboys, citizen-students of Avon College (a school and junior college, preparatory to universities...
...fulfill the Old Testament prophecy of the second coming of the Son of God. In their midst he had died. They carried him over the long river bridge in sombre procession to a hill without the city, and buried him at sunset, simply, in white shroud and plainest wooden coffin...
...glaring lights of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, never went out all last week. The seats of the great amphitheatre filled and emptied, filled and emptied as the days wore on. Still the lights burned steadily. Beneath them, around and around and around a broad wooden track, banked steep and high at the corners, a band of hunched-over bicycle riders ground their pedals up and down incessantly, circling lap after lap, mile after mile without leaving the ellipse. It was an international six-day race, for Distance against Time, for Money against Monotony. Tex Rickard, promoter, chewed cigars, watched...
Workmen are also busy at the annual task of laying the board track and tearing down the wooden stands of the Stadium. The track will be ready for Coach Farrell's charges on Monday. It appears in fast condition, although the corners already show wear from only two years' use. The 20 men on the wooden stands will be occupied all winter in demolishing the work which took from June to November to complete...
...span of wing of 87 ft. 6 in., a chord or width of 14 ft., a total area in its biplane wings of 2,400 sq. ft. The sturdy 60-ft. hull, built of the wonderfully light and strong duralumin, is lighter and less liable to soakage than the wooden-hull type of construction it Displaces, can keep afloat in the roughest sea. The wings, while fabric-covered, are also metal in their structure. Two huge Packard engines of 800 horsepower each revolve at 2,200 times a minute-hence their large power for comparatively small weight-while the propellers...