Word: woodworking
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When the Cambridge Antiquarian Society got to work, they found that they had stumbled onto woodwork from the portal to the Old Chapel of Elizabethan days; the chapel where John Harvard worshipped and received his degree. Samples of the wood were kept, but it wasn't until 1936 that T. S. Hele, Master of Emmanuel College, realized the meaning of the wood to Harvard and brought it along with him to the Tercentenary...
...room hewn from the bowels of the earth and lined with woodwork, Tito offered us a welcome Slivovic (strong Yugoslav plum brandy) and American cigarets...
...other members of the team, thoroughly sold on wood, joined Durante in a search for samples. They proceeded to a methodical separation of the nightclub, snatched violins from the orchestra, went backstage and to the kitchen for mixing bowls and stepladders. Gradually they covered the dance floor with assorted woodwork (pushcarts, wooden Indians, rickshaws), reaching a climax by carrying in a birchbark canoe or an outhouse...
...hexed Brewster Aeronautical Corp., which has sandbagged four presidents in 16 months, last week finished off a fifth. Hoarse-voiced, 275-lb. Frederick Riebel Jr., after seven months of falling through trap doors, tripping over wires and hearing noises in the woodwork, gave up and left. The big news was his successor. Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser, who has been Brewster's board chairman since March, went...
There was a time when it was easy for one generation to pass ideals on to the next. There was something about the dark, dust-gathering swirls in the Victorian woodwork; something about the starched primness of their collars and the faded coloring in their petticoated dresses that made it easy to pass that on. Young men were ambitious and old men were Christian and children were an awkward combination of the two. But through it all life was slow enough for people to read the Bible to their grandchildren before they died...