Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bishop of Edinburgh. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand. As a boy, he lived in America and attended a private school on Washington Square. While an undergraduate at Cambridge, he wrote two novels. One of them, The Wooden Horse, was his first published story. Before this, however, at the age of twelve, he is said to have written a novel concerning Guy Fawkes for the delectation of the family cook. For a time he worked as a journalist on The London Standard. He is popular in London; but it is only at certain times that he allows himself...
...that will play host on July 4 to the Dempsey Gibbons fight for the heavyweight championship. Lesser details of the despatch revealed that eight miles of railroad track will be installed for Pullman parking space, the two schools will be turned into temporary lodging houses, canvas and wooden shacks are rising like weeds, and other arrangements are feverishly under way, at a cost of $250,000, to take care of the 50,000 citizenry expected for the battle...
Still another plan for enlargement has frequently been heard, and is perhaps worth consideration. Major Moore's two suggestions will merely put a curved end on the north to match the south, and the capacity will be only five to ten thousand more than that of the present wooden stands. But if the straight sides were extended for some distance before beginning the curve, at least twenty thousand seats could be gained. It would be necessary to move the playing field a proportional distance--for example, if the sides were extended fifty yards, the playing field would be moved twenty...
...that the addition would pay for itself in time through the increased revenue from the additional 10,000 seats at the important football games. Likewise a considerable saving would be made through having permanent seats at the north end which would dispense with the necessity of having to erect wooden stands every year...
Among the most interesting of the demonstrations was that in which troop 9 of Boston put 12 men over a wooden wall 15 feet high in 35 seconds. In the fire making contest without matches, E. D. Davenport of Troop 4 won the championship, adjusting the bow and string and whirling the pivot until he obtained a spark to light the flame all in 43 seconds...