Word: woodworking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palaces," it was a maze of sprawling, verandahed, one-story buildings built around open courtyards and roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray of pearls...
...vast study of Montesquieu at La Brode. Scores of tapers which flickered in the intricately wrought candelabra scarcely brightened the hall, but reflected dimly from the gilt and calf binding which lined the walls, or brought into sharper relief the darkness of the richly ornamented carving on woodwork and wainscote. The men standing about the table by the fire, jesting and arguing noisily, were gentlemen of the age of the sun king, respondent in satin and silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself with a pinch while...
...Butter, wheat, barley, oats, corn, poultry, raw cotton, petroleum, wood and timber hewn, sawn, planed or dressed; pit props, pit wood, staves and sleepers; plywood, builders' woodwork including window frames, doors and parts thereof...
More than half of the rooms in the Yard have defective wiring, it has been discovered as a result of the investigation new being carried on under the supervision of A. L. Endicott '94, comptroller of the University. The most common difficulties are spliced wires, cords fastened to the woodwork, and extensions longer than the legal length. Insufficiency of baseplugs, especially in the elder rooms, is the main cause of the trouble...
...three persons most concerned with the result of the Grand National were not at Aintree. One was Emilio Scala, the proprietor of a coffee shop in London, who had Grakle's ticket in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Another was Clayton C. Woods, the woodwork inspector at Fisher Body's Shops in Buffalo, N. Y. The third was George P. Dyamond, who runs a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa and who, because he had been unable to sell a half interest in his ticket on Annandale...