Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theatre, which will seat 180 people, will have a stage 12 by 28 feet and an auditorium 28 by 40 feet. A wooden marquee will be built on Holyoke Street...
There will be outdoor dancing on wooden platforms in the large courtyard, as well as dancing in the dining hall. The Class Day Committee is now negotiating to procure a name band...
Pipes & Panics. The underwriting started in 1808, when Alexander Brown and others put up $250,000 for Baltimore's first wooden pipe waterworks. As Brown's four sons joined the business, the firm opened branches in Philadelphia, New York and London, and old Alex was soon established as Baltimore's top financial brain. In 1812, when a British fleet was bombarding nearby Fort McHenry, Brown wrote: "I cannot think that they will ever destroy Baltimore." While other merchants fled, Brown helped keep the business community functioning. Years later, when a money panic threatened to wreck Baltimore...
Pyne is not certain what the University will do when the five-year extension expires. It is possible, he said, that a permanent building will be constructed to replace the wooden Vanserg...
While traveling in Europe last July, Bargain Hunter Heil dropped in at a tourist art shop in Florence, asked the proprietress if she had "anything old" on hand. She opened a drawer, pulled out a wooden panel containing a portrait of 16th Century Venetian Doge Leonardo Lore-dano, observed that she had long thought it might be the work of the great Venetian painter, Gentile Bellini. Heil took a sharp look, decided she was probably right and closed the sale on the spot. Later, Italian experts confirmed his verdict, and he shipped the picture...