Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realize the true significance of the winter season, however, it is necessary to look at more than the results and scores of these five meets, and to consider the work of the squad and coaches in daily practice in the cage and on the wooden track at Soldiers Field...
...statues of bulls, three feet high, made of thin copper plates over a wooden core. Their horns were of gold...
...London during the entire war. Indeed, the most extraordinary event in the twentieth century has been the evolution of the air-plane. What a difference between the days of Orville Wright, when the pilot, lying on his back for part of the flight, and steering from a small wooden seat near the propeller, reached the astonishing height of 350 feet, to the present days, when parachutists can drop safely from an altitude of 21,000 feet, and gasoline can be transferred from one plane to the other high above the earth. How could Farman, who, in 1903 filled his tank...
Whatever the reason for the lamentable lack of undergraduate geologists, it has prevented a thorough investigation of the geological problems of the University. An indication of what might be accomplished is given by the recent report on the terranean strata of Harvard Hall. Ground into the original wooden floor, which is occasionally exposed at the surface, there is a hard crystaline composition which defies analysis. This stratum the investigator likens to the Pre-Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most...
...communicated to human beings and to cattle by the tsetse fly. In 1907 the British Government called an international conference to deal with the evil. No help could be found. In the Autumn of 1921 Dr. Kleine went to Africa with a compound. He set up a camp of wooden huts in the interior of Rhodesia. In the Autumn of 1922 Dr. Kleine's party crossed into Belgian Congo. Finally the cure was "proved." Sleeping sickness is a kind of malaria. The remedy-"Bayer 205"-is first dissolved in water, then injected...