Word: cementation
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City Manager Atkinson feels, "It is the small things that have helped cement relations between the town and the College." He points to the civilian defense program during the war when professors and laborers served on wardens' teams. And there is the series of annual Council University dinners, at which members of the city administration and Harvard officials, including President Conant, dine and discuss common problems. Mayor John Corcoran '18 instituted this series in 1942. There was no dinner this year because of the President's illness and absence. This liaison with Cambridge officials often carries over to city departments...
...beyond a floppy bush hat and an armband. At another place I saw men building one of those Beau Geste forts which dot the delta. They were using salvaged bricks, mortared with mud. When the lookout tower is high enough they will face it with a thin layer of cement that will keep out water, but not much else. Said a French officer sadly: "It won't stop a bazooka." (Last week Communists using a bazooka breached one of these forts...
...lung-collapsing operation in which parts of the patient's ribs are cut out, and turned over so that they lie in a concave instead of convex position. They are sewn to the ends from which they were cut, where they cement themselves in place. Worked out by Drs. Richard H. Overholt and Leo J. Kenney of Brookline, Mass., the one-shot operation would take the place of an exhausting and expensive series now sometimes needed to collapse a tuberculous lung...
Tougher orders were in the works. Over the protests of the building industry, NPA was drawing up orders to limit construction of such "frivolous" enterprises as dance halls, nightclubs, race tracks and bowling alleys. The order, it was estimated, would save $500 million worth of steel, cement and other construction materials a year...
Smith's mother earned a living as a dressmaker and piano teacher and son Oliver helped out with paper routes and later with jobs as gardener, high-school janitor and cement plant worker. After high school, he spent a year in a logging camp, then worked his way through the University of California at Berkeley. Gardening is still his favorite hobby. His specialty: roses...