Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inflation. In Richfield, Minn., after the State Bank celebrated its fifth anniversary by passing out wooden nickels that had cost it 8? each, local merchants accepted the coins at face value...
Unable to get a cow, Martin J. Hertz 2L yesterday tried to cash a check written on the side of a wooden grocery crate at the Harvard Trust Company...
...door. The room's occupants opened the door, and after a short greeting, stared in amazement as the gentleman pushed a trunk toward the bedroom, climbed on top of it, and ran his hand along the top of the bedroom door. He found what he wanted, a wooden stopper plugging a ten inch hole. The room's occupants helped their visitor take the door off its hinges, and with a corkscrew they removed the plug. Inside, they found a parchment tied up in an orange ribbon...
...days when President Eliot took his morning gallop around the Yard on horseback, there was neither plumbing nor central heating in Matthews. Matthews men hauled big wooden tubs out to the Yard pump at six a.m., filled them with water, dragged them back to the basement of the Hall, and took their baths. Toilet facilities consisted of a large pit, also in the basement. Needless to say, living conditions were severe, especially when the "Med. Fac." blew up the Yard pump...
Last week, authenticated as Bruegel's Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, the little 9 by 13-in. wooden panel brought $31,000 at a London auction...