wood

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There were few streetlamps here, spread far apart, but the hulking sign planted on the hill blinked brightly, first HOLLY, then WOOD, then LAND, before it started all over again.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

WOOD, DEVOLSON: A treatise on the resistance of materials.

From The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Record, Samuel J.

The Baron who has been there, and still would go if he could, but, as he can't, he is contented to let "WOOD go" without him, and to read the latter's tales of a traveller.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 by Various

They would have tried it even then, but they were far above the belt of timber; they had matches—what boy has not?—but no WOOD.

From Tales of Trail and Town by Harte, Bret

SEE WOOD,     CASEY A.   The blockade of Germany after the     Armistice, 1918-1919.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1970 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office