Word: cementation
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...these key atolls, and perhaps to others, the Japs have been hauling tons of cement and steel. As at Tarawa, they have fashioned pillboxes of coconut logs, concrete, metal and many feet of sand. Under palm trees are coastal batteries...
...widely expanding its Far Eastern research, is playing a major role in bringing the U.S. into a global educational setup. For two weeks every month Paul Hanna leaves his wife and children and a Palo Alto hilltop which in peacetime was a tripper's cynosure: a redwood, cement and sheet-glass honeycomb architectured by Frank Lloyd Wright...
Carl Derman is meditating deeply these days on the merits of having one's profile engraved in famous places. He tried to pull a Barrymore on the steps of Harvard Union by imprinting his handsome face in that hallowed cement. The trouble was, the cement had long since dried and Mr. Berman has been making periodical retreats to Sick Bay ever since. (P. S.: He really stumbled...
...Santa Fe; the Frisco ; the Oklahoma City, Ada & Atoka R.R. that took Ada to the State capital 85 miles away. Inside the News office Paul boiled down facts & figures about the teeming life of Oklahoma's oil wells, zinc and lead mines, cotton and alfalfa fields, stockyards and cement mills into daily news for Ada's readers...
...hundred miles to the south, along the rim of a deep, blue-watered bay, spread another city. Once it was known for its neat streets, its champagne and cement, its busy harbor. But now it lay hushed below the hills from which rescue would some day come...