Word: asphalting
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...infernally cold in Chicago last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates on the frozen ground, the teams took to the field wearing basketball shoes. In the stands 14,000 Chicagoans shivered. Some 1,200 Washingtonians were there too, because in the single season they have had a major-league professional team, Washingtonians have gone crazy about the game...
During the past week Maintenance Department workers have been getting ready for an asphalt path to run from the back door of Harvard diagonally to the gap between Stoughton and Hollis. Yesterday saw the crushed rock foundation...
...students must cut corners and tread on the grass, the Maintenance Department will put in a walk for them. During the past week workers have been putting in an asphalt path to run from Lehman Hall, under the "spreading beech tree," to intersect the walk entering the Yard from Massachusetts Avenue...
...Yorker but no N.Y.U. alumnus, was soon discovered, but Pittsburgh police could not extradite him for malicious mischief. Meantime, the institute's scientists in whom U.S. tycoons have invested $11,478,406 for industrial research, notably into paints and chemicals, threw all their resources into removing the black asphalt paint. In the end, they could think of no better means than to set stonecutters to work laboriously chipping away one thirty-second of an inch of the 300-ft. surface...
...Park Square the early June drizzle has become a light rain and the steady pattering of the drops distorts the reflected lights on the asphalt pavement. It is show time; people scurry and jabber of Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and perfectly marvelous seats for "Candida...