Word: cementation
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...first few efforts to cement the Freshmen entering in September turn out well, the Freshman Committee deserves a feather in its cap. If they end in a fiasco, it will be obvious that in trying to maintain the class feeling of the newcomers they have been barking up the wrong tree. Perhaps House activities will prove more successful in making the individual feel a part of wartime Harvard. At any rate, it will be known once and for all whether class unity means as much to the Freshmen as was once thought. This knowledge will be invaluable in dealing with...
...five years Londoners have watched the cement-arc slowly growing across the river (see cut). The finished job, 80 ft. wide, with five 240-ft. spans in gleaming Portland stone, looked so fresh and handsome against their war-and weather-battered city that it seemed, like a lorgnette on a charwoman, uncomfortably elegant. The bridge's designer, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, sharing the public view, wistfully observed: "The chief feature is the underside...
...Hard-set reinforced concrete makes the best plug-a two-inch steel pipe lowered into the hole, and packed inside and out with cement. But concrete that is not reinforced can be drilled out like the filling of an old tooth...
...Neighbors Down The South" is a documentary film on the construction of the new, and as yet uncompleted Pan-American road which will link the two Americas. The pictures show the work from the chopping away of the underbrush to the final cement-laying on the road...
...forth, designed to help people get acquainted. It doesn't do any harm to make use of them, and it may help a great deal. The Houses, into which Freshmen are moving for the first time, will make arrangements for men of 1946 to meet and to cement some sort of class solidarity. All of these social events are entirely voluntary. If you want to go, then go. If you prefer to stay home and make your own friendships, that's your privilege...