Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tunnels Under the Huds n. Raymond Concrete Pile Co. was built upon the tapered concrete pile that Founder Alfred A. Raymond invented in the 1890s to replace the wooden foundation pile. He had a hard time selling his idea, and some of those who invested savings in his tiny firm did so largely for friendship's sake. But by 1946, a share of stock purchased in 1902 for $2.50 was worth $888, including stock splits, and had already paid $992 in dividends...
...better off if we could take the taxes and let the government have the inheritance"; Hume's nephew, who wants a job to prove that, despite his wealth, he can do something useful and creative; a pretty, 17-year-old neighbor with a wooden head and a seven-ply body that is calculated to make "you understand why the universe continues in spite of wars, famines and pestilence...
...Shalakos are beautiful. They are birds, about ten feet high, with turquoise heads crested with eagle feathers and mounted with feather-tipped buffalo horns. Their bulging ball-eyes roll majestically and their wooden beaks clack-clack as they glide and stomp through their dance of blessing, with a tinkling of bells worn at the knees of the dancers...
...autobiography had the most interesting time of it, month in, month out. To be sure, the year's first big guns fired blanks. Carl Sandburg was curiously flat in Always the Young Strangers, a long reminiscence of his own youth, and Scholar Edgar Johnson was thorough but wooden in his Charles Dickens. But there were better things to come. One was an excellent first volume of a definitive biography of Sigmund Freud by a distinguished British disciple, Dr. Ernest Jones. Biographer Andre Maurois published his best book, Leila, about man-eating French Novelist George Sand. In The Traitor...
...working control of the line, which runs 24 ships, belongs to Sweden's Broström Lines, one of the world's ten biggest (694,483 tons) shippers. The combine was started in 1865 when 27-year-old Axel Broström borrowed money to buy a wooden trading ketch, Mathilda. Last week Axel's grandson and SAL's board chairman, Tor Erland Broström, stood on the Kungsholm's glassed-in decks and beamed as New York harbor saluted Mathilda's youngest descendant...