Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greek Folk Songs and Dances (Royal Greek Festival Co.; Esoteric). Odd and unexpected rhythms, exotic harmonies, haunting melodic patterns and some rarely recorded instruments, e.g., lira (viol), santir (dulcimer), wooden spoons, go into one of the most interesting and unusual albums of the year...
When the carpenters and joiners of Waltham, Mass, whittled out wooden models for L. W. Gushing & Sons' custom-made weather vanes, they had no pretensions of being artists. If they added an occasional creative or imaginative touch to these practical instruments, they were merely trying, as one craftsman put it, to "blend the useful and the agreeable...
...past, no matter which team won, both wooden goal posts would soon be ripped down. Post-game battles for the wooden structures had been bitterly fought and souvenir chips to be brought back to the room were highly prized...
Harvard Stadium, which in the past has seen its wooden goalposts torn down after each football game at a weekly cost of $75, will greet plunder-bent students this fall with a pair of new steel posts designed to remain standing indefinitely...
Getchell said that the high cost of the old posts prompted the action. Steel and concrete posts have previously been installed at Yale and Princeton with varying degrees of success. They have generally withstood post-game demonstrations, but on occasion have been known to fall, just like their wooden predecessors...