Word: cementation
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Maintenance Department men are at the moment engaged in filling up the hole made in searching for the well, making connections with the city water system, and putting in a cement platform at the bottom of the spring. On this platform will sit an iron tank filled out of the city mains on a float system. From the tank water will be taken by a wooden pump, a replica of the old one. Pieces for this were purchased in various parts of New Hampshire, and the average age of the new water lifter should be 20 years...
...during the War, but not too young to remember what happens when enemy planes ride over a town. I knew then that what I wanted more than anything else in the world was to do something to lessen this horror. When I was in the university laying bricks, mixing cement and learning how to erect steel girders, I began to figure out a way to perfect something which would conserve not only human life but materials. These bombproof houses are the result...
...finally revolted. After prolonged proceedings, the Federal Trade Commission issued a cease & desist order in 1924. Pittsburgh Plus was then replaced by the basing point system, which substituted a number of cities for Pittsburgh. Other industries now using basing point prices, which may also, include "phantom" freight charges, are cement, lumber, paper, flour, sugar...
...piece of news for you. An Anglo-American Society is in the process of formation here, in order still further to cement the bonds of friendship of the students of our nations. The details are as yet not finally settled, and the society is not going to start work until next term, but then I hope to be able to give you fuller particulars. So far the help of Sir Evelyn Wrench of the All Peoples Association has been obtained, and he has promised to interest the American Ambassador in London in the scheme. If a similar society were...
Despite all these headaches, the League Palace, glimpsed from a passing airplane, already makes a fine display with its great cement masses of elephant white...