Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...muddy bleak Tiomne, near Uman, a church was crowded last week. Dingy communicants, bearded, bright-eyed, breathless, gazed in fascination at a plain wooden table which stood before the altar. A young man lay across the table. His throat was bared...
...order to make way for the first unit of the new House Plan, the building at 34 Holyoke-Street, which provides quarters for the Economics and Naval Science Departments, will be moved to a site on Plympton Street formerly occupied by wooden tenement houses, now being torn down, it was learned yesterday from A. L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University. Work on moving the structure will probably be started immediately after Commencement...
...soil that these skeletons have been so well preserved," said a Sorbonne professor inspecting a cadaver whose clutching fingers showed the agony of his death. "This portion of the prison dates from the 12th Century, perhaps earlier." Skeletons sat upright against the dungeon wall. Some lay with heavy wooden collars about their necks, some were chained to blocks of stone...
...meeting, Monday, the Harvard Corporation voted to permit the Athletic Association to fill the open end of the Soldiers Field Stadium with permanent steel stands and to replace the wooden stands which cover the track inside the enclosure during the football season with temporary steel structures...
...decision to erect the steel stands ends a problem which has been current for two years since the temporary wooden structures were condemned by the Building Commission. Since then three alternatives have been open to the Athletic authorities, namely: to fill in the open end with concrete stands; to erect temporary steel structures; and to build permanent steel stands...