Word: cementation
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Dilly-Doily. In Bogota, N.J., sidewalk superintendents watched two steeple jacks climb 750 feet to repair the smokestacks of the Continental and Federal Paper Co., wondered as one of them began to embroider a doily while waiting for a fresh batch of cement, eventually discovered they were lady steeple jacks...
...unmistakable U.S. trappings, Henry Wallace said: "You've certainly created America here. It's swell." Then he stripped down to the waist for a volleyball game between officers and enlisted men, played in a drenching rain. Wallace teamed up with the G.I.s, fell flat on the muddy cement court...
This week the Army went to work on an operation which the forehanded Lutes and his staff began plotting in August 1943. They had listed cement, steel, tools, machinery needed to rebuild the port of Cherbourg. All the stuff was loaded onto a small fleet of ships, some of which were complete machine shops, and held in readiness in U.S. ports. Before D-day the little fleet started for France, was on hand to move into Cherbourg the day the port fell...
...India for ten years. He was "one of the fathers of modern geography," and author of such classic studies as The Evolution of Sex, Chapters in Modern Botany. The essential condition of man, Geddes used to say, is that man is "always attempting the impossible and achieving it." Intellectual Cement Tester. Young Mumford decided to be a Renaissance man, too. So he got a job as an investigator in the dress and waist industry, became an assistant cement tester in the U.S. Bureau of Standards, a U.S. Navy radio operator in World War I. He was also an unsuccessful playwright...
...toys lay neglected as Master John Boettiger, 5, pursued his recurring ambition to become a White House guard. But not for long. Interests ebb & flow fast at five. Soon, Johnny was back at his habit of riding the Irish Mail or the Express wagon back & forth on the long cement walkway that stretches just south of the sprawling White House, flashing briefly at one end into the vision of his grandfather, the President...