Word: asphalting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alabama: rebuilding storm sewers in Montgomery; malaria control in Mobile; cleaning the Cahaba River in Bibb County; steel bridge over Copeland Creek in Madison; double treatment asphalt street paving in Greenville; improving cemetery drives in Gadsden; a reform school in Mt. Meigs; a swimming pool in Columbiana...
Orrick Johns, who is the author of two books, "Asphalt," and "The Wild Plum," is an active member and representative of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners...
...cross between a horse stable and a potato cellar.'' The walls were of rough planks; the glass roof, patched in places, leaked when it rained. There were three battered deal tables covered with apparatus, a few chairs, a pot-bellied stove. On the asphalt floor lay coarse mats...
...Darien, or even the depression of a valley, set him musing on an inner landscape. When he wants to, he can be as descriptive as the next 20th Century citizen, as in this definitive portrait of the pitch lake of Trinidad: ". . . The real pitch lake is simply about 200 asphalt tennis courts, in very bad condition, set in the midst of some gently undulating green meadows." But he usually saves his penetrating glances for the scenery of ideas: "The truth is that our so-called wars of interest are really wars of passion, like those in Central America. . . . Nationalism...
...Palestine's Dead Sea, lowest sheet of water on the earth's surface, contains some asphalt. But its inability to support life is generally attributed to its intense salinity...