Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Paula laid away his formal clothes in moth balls. The white-haired old dynamo had run down; he was going back to the land, to the pioneer moshave of Sde Boker in the Negeb, Israel's desert frontier, to live in a three-room wooden hut and resume his study of classical and Renaissance philosophy. Paula was not too enthusiastic about renouncing city life, but planned to resume her old occupation and become the colony's nurse...
...Hamilton Vaughan Ball '13 tells how Wetherbee suddenly appeared at the door, "walked to the door, of the bedroom and standing on my roommate's trunk ran his hand along the top of the door. He then asked me to do the same whereupon I discovered a round wooden plug set in the top. We removed the door found a corkscrew and with Mr. Wetherbee acting as Master of Ceremonies opened the hole." After explaining the documents to Bail and his roommate, Wetherbee then went off to find Amory and all four of them again signed the scroll...
...Trophy as the outstanding football player of 1952. and he was the only player to make everybody's All-America team. This year, when two-way players are at a premium with the end of the two-platoon system, when football is again producing iron men instead of wooden specialists, All-America Lattner is taking up where he left...
...whole football spectacle, Photographer Strock dug up a pair of half-forgotten cameras that were popular in grandfather's time: a boxlike "panoramic camera" with a swiveling lens, and a "circuit camera" turned full circle by a small, spring-driven motor. Years ago itinerant cameramen used these wooden "buzz-boxes,'' turning out four-foot films of school graduations and political clambakes. Today Photographer Strock finds new use for the oldtime cameras by fitting them with modern color film, to capture the charging players and the roaring crowds in a single sweep...
...rest of the College waits unknowing, unknowing that the Furniture Revolution is upon them. Some day- nobody knows when, some new furniture-nobody is sure what-will replace the present equipment in University rooms. In the meantime, four Kirkland House students are testing the various alternatives. Metal desks and wooden ones undergo the daily wear of cigarette butts and feet. Bookshelves feel the load of heavy Government texts. Tables withstand the stain and strain of punch bowls...