Word: cementation
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...after sweating over a hot slide-rule for some weeks, the architect team of McKim, Mead and White rushed up from New York laden with rolls of blue paper. The Aberthaw Construction Company of Boston wasted no time: saziche sandwiches were prepared, red wine was distributed, and the cement started pouring. After a year-and-a-half of carefully directed work, the building was completed, and the University's treasurer neatly penned a check for $295,000. It was good, and six years later the colonnade was added, bring the seating capacity...
...being "sent down" as the possible penalty, the hero's prank is performed in broad daylight before an admiring student crowd. In reality, when playful Oxonians have felt an urge to embellish the Martyrs' Memorial, the chamber pot has been applied in darkness, in stealth and with cement...
...occasion for Southern California to recapitulate what it has that makes champions: 1) cement courts, which favor an aggressive game and teach youngsters to hit hard; 2) year-round sunshine; 3) Perry Jones...
...outside San Antonio and Austin, Tex., there is lively bidding each night at $1,200 for big truckloads of lumber worth $720 at ceiling prices. In almost every rural area, war veterans with priorities bought new tractors, sold them back of'the barn at $500 profit. In Florida, cement building blocks (ceiling 17?) had a current black-market price...
...improved cement Marshall brought from Washington-more definite promises of monetary and commercial aid, encouragement of private investment-would help strengthen the Central Government's efforts to establish its sovereignty and restore order. But Marshall well knew that no foreigner-however great his prestige - could mend a 20-year rift, or could stay indefinitely to enforce a truce. The Chinese themselves must do both, and some recognized the fact...