Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-smile as if they were really enjoying it." What the M.I.T. students were crowding in to see was not the usual collection of old masters or the latest in advance-guard painting. Instead, the Institute was exhibiting a sample of an ancient and vanishing American art: the carved wooden Indians and trade symbols that merchants used to advertise their wares 100 years...
...display was the work of Collector Rudolf F. Haffenreffer, an old M.I.T. man ('95) and board chairman of Rhode Island's Narragansett Brewing Company. A longtime Americana fan, Brewer Haffenreffer started collecting wooden Indians in the '303 as a promotion stunt for his company. Then it became a passionate hobby...
...meeting of the Business School's Graduating Class, and the speaker was Donald M. Wright, director of Alumni Activities. An announcement of the "Last Beer Bust" had lured some six hundred students, wives and/or dates to spacious Carey Cage, and they were all seated in wooden chairs before the podium...
...serving as a rooming house, the yellow wooden building, which is located next door to Lesley College, has space for an estimated 15 offices...
...Summer of 1930 a horse hauled a wooden building from its familiar site on Divinity Avenue, and dumped it off across the street. Sixteen years after this transplanting, that building became the Modern Language Center...