Word: cementation
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...last spring, the disgruntled directors motored to Pacific Portland Cement Co.'s nearby plant to arrange for reconditioning the track surface with new soil and oystershells. Instead of this stock remedy, the company's chief agronomist, white-thatched, red-faced James Wilkes Jones, advised treating the soil itself. Upon examination he found that it consisted of nonporous and nonabsorbent substances. To rectify this, to get a soil that was ''friable, moist and mellow," he had ten tons of secret minerals churned into the soil by a special harrow and hopper-spreader. By September, after two months...
...launched an intensive chemical drive on cotton fibres, which are almost pure cellulose. When they soaked the fibres in strong hydrochloric acid, the cellulose structure came visibly apart under powerful microscopes. The particles, it turned out, had not been too small to see but were hidden by a cementing substance that the acid dissolved. There were football-shaped bodies some .00006 in. long. As the cell wall was built the particles formed compact strands like strings of sausages, and as string after string was laid down on the cell wall they merged so neatly with the gelatinous cement that...
...known to favor the conference rather than the revolver as an instrument of settling jurisdictional disputes. From his Newark hideout he had sent an emissary to Manhattan several weeks ago.This emissary had never returned, and word had gone round that he was to be found in a barrel of cement on the bottom of the Hudson River. Krompier was supposed to have been on a second goodwill mission when he was shot in the Times Square barbershop...
...have said that the materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement, in this order and in this hierarchy...
Camp Wood, for white girls, has a big recreation & dining room, electrically-lighted cabins, tennis courts, ping-pong tables, riding horses, a lake for swimming and boating. At Camp Washita girls live in a dormitory, have a piano, phonograph, radio and cement swimming pool. Camp Bide-a-Wee "is a cool, green spot shaded by huge trees situated beside a clear creek" where "colored women live in screened-in cabins, possess a beautifully furnished main room for recreation and study and have tennis courts, swings and a croquet ground for sports...