Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followers bathed his body, tied a white loincloth around his waist and a towel around his shoulders, and placed him on a wooden pedestal in a sitting position, with legs crossed. Rose, jasmine and chrysanthemum garlands were hung around his neck. Camphor and incense were burned. Devotees recited prayers and a chant, composed by Gandhi, imploring God to grant wisdom to all. Hundreds came from all parts of Madras city, filed past the body of the man they now regarded as a martyr...
...tankbuster) whom Göring improbably credited with one Russian battleship, two heavy cruisers and 532 Red army tanks in 2,500 sorties. Decorated with the Wehrmacht's highest combat honors,* Rudel escaped to Buenos Aires at war's end, sold his memoirs (Nevertheless . . .) and, despite his wooden leg, bested all comers as tennis player, swimmer, skier and mountaineer...
...sets. It reproduces tones from a low of 50 cycles per second to a high of 12,000 (the ordinary hi-fi range), compared to a smaller tonal range of 80-6,000 c.p.s. in most phonographs. Columbia gets its reproduction chiefly by an extra thick, solid wooden cabinet (which eliminates "tinny" vibration) and two 6-in. speakers located at each side of the phonograph, instead of one in front. It hopes to sell 25,000 machines in the first year. Columbia is not the only company to decide that the hi-fi cult, started by music lovers who wanted...
Partially as a result of such protest, and partially because the library's donor, Thomas W. Lamont '92, obliged with funds, the University merely decided to uproot, rather than destroy, the yellow wooden structure. Since 1947 therefore it has squatted between the Union and the Faculty Club, and, provided with a permanent hostess and various pieces of period furniture, has housed an estimated three to four hundred visitors to the University--all of them official guests of varying status...
Borrowing most of the equipment, the three young experimenters found a sufficiently large magnet in a wooden shed behind Lyman Laboratory and set to work--during nights, Sundays, every spare moment. Unknowingly they were working against time, for 3,000 miles away Bloch was constructing a similar experiment...