Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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False Alarm. In Indianapolis, police rushed to the freight yards to look for a dismembered body in a boxcar, found Howard Finley resting beside his wooden...
...chief reason for Versailles' sad state: inadequate gutters to lead off rainwater, and jerry-built interiors. Seepage has rotted away the wooden beams supporting the parqueted floors, loosened the gold and plaster ceilings which are nailed precariously to deteriorating laths. "It is like a house of cards," says Government Architect André Japy. "If one part begins collapsing, everything else will follow. It is no longer a question of repairing one part of the building; everything must be restored...
Bill Mauldin's Army dates from 1939, from the lean waiting days of leggings, dishpan helmets, the first jeeps, and upended logs dignified by the sign "howitzer" tacked to their wooden trails. Mauldin's book takes that army through its adolescence in training and its maturity under fire. His cartoons tell a lot about what made that army grow, and even more about how Mauldin grew with...
...center of an ever widening ring of people, without an overcoat, on a small, rough, wooden platform, stood a short plump man in the black suit of a clergyman, his arms waving in the air, his white hair tossing about above his glasses, his shrill voice carrying over the noise of traffic on nearby Charles Street...
...background for so long--service to the College and community. The new subway to Boston enabled it to expand its work until today, it sends volunteers to 33 Boston settlement Houses to teach kids how to speak and write, how to play basketball and baseball, how to make wooden bookstands and tin ashtrays for Christmas gifts, and how to have...