Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smooth, vertical walls were originally cut away for the Bunker Hill Monument. By 1932 the Club had graduated from the molehills of Quincy to the mountains of Asia, and joined in a year-long expedition that reached the top of Minya Kouka--the biggest peak in China--despite makeshift wood-and-iron equipment. The party's original equipment had been shanghaid, logically enough, in Shanghai...
...will of Hollywood's late, Red-hating Director Sam (For Whom the Bell Tolls) Wood carried on the crusade. A clause in the will requires every beneficiary, except his widow, to file a non-Communist loyalty oath before collecting...
...fund was established in 1913 by friends of Burr, an outstanding athlete, 'scholar, and student leader. Previous recipients have included John P. Chase '28, now coach of the hockey team, all-American Barry Wood '32, and Paul Knapluth '49, last year's crew captain...
Another exhibit shows bark cloth (tapa). The Pacific islanders made it by pounding the fibrous inner bark of certain trees. So did Indians in Nicaragua and Mexico. The cloth of both hemispheres is the same papery stuff, and the wood and stone pounding tools the two peoples used (shown in the exhibit) are so similar that they might have been made by the same...
...same day Robert was "justified," he met himself in a wood. "What was my astonishment! ... I conceived that my guardian angel had appeared." For hours the two rowed their theological pea pods up & down the mainstream of early Calvinist theology-the predestinarian doctrine that man is saved or damned in the mind of God before he is born. Soon they were in a dangerous eddy: that it doesn't really matter what sins a man commits in this life, as long as he is one of God's elect...