Word: cementation
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Early in 1903, rolls of completed blueprints were rushed up to Boston. Experts in the College's engineering department conducted laboratory experiments through the Spring, and finally decided a cement beam with twisted steel rods running through it would be stronger and cheaper than either stone, brick, or steel. This reinforced concrete was used throughout the structure...
Last week, at the still unfinished "House of the Worker" on the village's main square, Don Giuseppe prepared to dedicate the first monument in Italy to depict Christ as a worker: a 4-by-8-ft. cement bas relief by Roman Sculptor Egidio Giaroli showing Christ as a carpenter at work with two assistants under the gaze of Mary. Bologna's famed archbishop, Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (TIME, March 30), came to town for the ceremony...
Columbia, however, does not have the endowment for undergraduate scholarships to compete against other Ivy schools. It lacks the alumni system to contact promising high school seniors. Finally, each time a prospective student is interviewed, the legend of the college in the city cement, among the skyscrapers and the elevated trains, must be over-come...
...Hooper, 25, a Los Angeles telephone-company lineman, who drove a shiny streamliner with a Class C (up to 300 cu. in.) V-8 engine over the cement-hard flats to six new International records, hitting more than 230 m.p.h. at distances from one kilometer to ten kilometers...
Other prisoners spent their days, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., working on Guiana's roads, forests and plantations, their nights locked in fetid barracks. For those who rebelled, there were solitary cells on St. Joseph Island, cement pits whose only opening was an iron grille. Few inmates long survived St. Joseph. One who did was the locally famed Paul Roussenq, an ex-soldier serving 20 years for attempted arson. Paul's reputation as the ace of all incorrigibles earned him a more or less permanent home on St. Joseph. He wrote frequent obscene letters to the prison...