Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record show that on that cool, damp day in September, sitting behind his wide, wooden desk in his cozy Dillon office, Restic's first word was "Yale"--a team which had as much chance of winning the Ivy title as Bill Clinton has of finishing a marathon...
...tried to keep a lot of wood buildings," said Gifford. "On Mt. Auburn street, for example, a wooden frame construction is now a very mundane brick building...
...have a sort of Field-of-Dreamish feel for Miami. It's a hundred miles or so outside of Cincinnati in Oxford, Ohio. Route 33 passes cobwebbed motels that do business two weekends a year and wooden crosses dedicated to student victims of drunk driving, coming to an end at campus. The grass is green there--greener than any grass I've ever seen. The buildings are clayred--not the smokey look of Grays Hall...
...sport which has been underrepresented in the holiday-association game. The choice, I think, is obvious: bowling. Bowling is about as American as a sport can get. Sure, it may have come form those lawn games over in Europe, but bowling has become a uniquely American sport: the hard wooden alleys, the psychedelic colored balls and who could forget the funky-looking shoes and shirts...
...Wooden barricades and a plywood walkway mark a Holyoke Center sidewalk renovation, the first stage of a major refurbishment project that will continue through next year...