Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painting and tatooing of the body practiced by the natives of Central America and by those of the Canaries. The designs of the painting and tatooing of these two peoples, far distant geographically and separated by thousands of miles of water, are practically the same, and even the wooden stamps for impressing the paint on the body are much the same...
...soon as the reserved seats in the Stadium sections are exhausted, tickets to the reserved seats in the colonnade and in the wooden, stands on the cinder track will be offered to the public. On Saturday the final black of tickets will be put on sale, when 12,000 rush seats in the wooden stands at the end of the Stadium are offer diet the gates of Soldiers Field at 81.00 each...
...good old days, according to Mr. Bronk a class in Caesar took great interest in making wooden models of Caesar's bridges. To try such a thing today would only call forth a laugh, mainly because it would be such a waste of time." And therein lies the key to the trouble. A Mr. Hughes says people are "living too fast". Minutes, as if by the touch of Midas, have been turned to gold. The vast economic development of recent years has undoubtedly increased and distributed wealth, but it has also, like all good things, its price. Because...
...this fact there has been a shift in the usual arrangements for entrance gates. Spectators holding tickets for sections 23 to 27 will pass through gate 1. Gate 2 will be for holders of passes and badges. Gate 3 will be for those holding tickets for seats in the wooden stands, sections 38 to 51. Gate 4 will admit to sections 1 to 10 on the east side of the stadium, and gate 5 is for sections 11 to 37, the bowl and the Harvard side...
There are but 4,000 seats which had not been disposed of by 6 o'clock last night. These seats will go on sale at Leavitt and Pierce's at 10 o'clock this morning. The tickets, which are for the curve of the colonnade and the wooden stands on the track, will be sold only to holders of H. A. A. and season tickets as long as the supply lasts. No more than two seats will be sold with each ticket, and the price will be $2.00 apiece...