Word: cement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Paramount and Fenway: "Now and Forever"--Shirley Temple in a fairly entertaining story which attempts to prove that nothing is better able than a child to cement the bonds of true love. "The Case of the Howling Dog"--a very complicated mystery which is about mediocre...
Glass Jars and Cement Tubs...
Over in the Biological Institute the instructors in Zoology are principally interested in small insects and the lowest forms of life. It is estimated that there are over two billion one-celled animals of various types kept by the Department in glass jars and long cement tubs. There are, however, 50 large mussels, 75 ordinary frogs and three African bullfrogs, 300 minnows, 500 gold flies, two crayfish, 50 leeches, 5000 tadpoles, 125 lizards of different kinds, about 100,000 worms of different varieties, 300 tropical fish, 300 mice, and 15 rats included in the collection...
Such devotion to duty did not pass unnoticed by "Uncle George'' Cameron, who made a fortune in the cement business long before he inherited the Chronicle from his father-in-law in 1925. Last week he appeared at the Chronicle with 161 jewelers' boxes. Inside each little box was a small gold medal inscribed, within laurel...
...aspirations of humanity for liberty and justice and the good life. It is old as Christian ethics, for basically its ethics are the same. It is new as the Declaration of Independence was new, and the Constitution of the United States; its motives are the same. . . . It seeks to cement our society, rich and poor, manual worker and brain worker, into a voluntary brotherhood of freemen, standing together, striving together, for the common good...