Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quincy in December is still little more than a seven story cement and steel shell with elevator shafts. Few people can imagine its completion by September. Only two resident tutors and a handful of associates have thus far been named. Yet 260 students, almost twice the anticipated number, have filed applications for residence in the new House in the fall...
...free his government of the strangling Red embrace. Prime Minister Rahman first declared a boycott of Chinese textiles, cement and chemicals, which have been flooding the Malayan market at below-cost prices. Last week he rammed through the Legislative Council a bill decreeing that any bank operating in Malaya that is owned by a foreign government or on behalf of that government or any of its agencies, must cease operation within three months. Of Kuala Lumpur's 15 banks-British as well as Malayan-the only one to answer to all the specifications is the Communist Bank of China...
...socialism at first transformed cattle-and sheep-growing Uruguay into a Latin American Utopia, Uruguayans into devoted followers of the Colorados. They got pensions (usually starting at 50) and the eight-hour day 20 years before the U.S. did. They got a vast network of government industries: insurance, rum, cement, petroleum refining and distribution, electricity. They got paid leave for expectant working mothers, state-paid funerals. They paid no income taxes; intricate exchange rates, in effect export duties on wool and beef, met the bills...
Tapies, brightest young (35) man to come out of Spain since those electric uncles of modern art, Picasso, Dali and Miro, allowed that his picture represented "nothing at all." His pigments were mixed with "something like cement-it's almost like relief work." La Pintura does in fact suggest the Costa Brava's austere spaciousness-rocks, sea and fishing boats...
...physics course, taught by Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics and director of the Institute at Harvard, enables physics instructors to cement their knowledge of fundamentals as well as explore new fields...