Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shreds while teaching), "Casey" Sills mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy "ex-scholar," famed for his love of Dante, for eating (so goes the legend) eleven lobster stews at a sitting, and for liking to run his piny campus just as if Longfellow were still there: "Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls...
...tough, dishonest Sterling Hayden. After payroll holdups, gun battles, a landslide, dynamiting and a head-on train collision, right triumphs, and the Rio Grande comes through on schedule. The Denver & Rio Grande chugs through impressive Technicolor Rocky Mountain scenery, mostly at a slow-freight pace. Among the characters mouthing wooden dialogue in this little iron-horse opera: Dean Jagger and J. Carrol Naish as pioneer railroad men, and Zasu Pitts as a fluttery frontier belle...
Harvard football drew the multi-colored crowds across the bridge In those days, and, as they entered the massive football structure, they noted that the old wooden stands were gone. Across the arms of the horseshoe now stood 17,000 seats worth of cold steel, stuff just as solid the reputation of the Crimson Perhaps a little more...
...life. Fifty years ago (and even today in many localities), the traditional city park consisted of a generous area of well-kept green grass, sprinkled with shade trees and sometimes with flowers, gravel walks for strollers, hard benches for sitters, usually an iron or stone fountain, and often a wooden bandstand. Now the trend is toward parks which are useful as well as ornamental...
Bell Telephone's labyrinth is about half as big as a desk top and is fitted with aluminum partitions which can be shifted around among 40 different slots. Theseus himself has only a mouse-shaped wooden body, three small wheels and whiskers of copper wire. Inside him is nothing but a bar-magnet. His brains are outside him, under the floor of the labyrinth. They are a complicated array of relays...