Word: cementation
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...January the coalition-controlled Senate voted 4-to-35 to put cement on the free list. Last week it flopped around and adopted 45-0-37 an amendment by New Jersey's Senator Kean to levy a 6¢-per-lb. cement duty. Reason: more undercover trades...
Racquets. A court 60 ft. by 30 ft. with four black cement walls; no net; long-handled, small-headed racquet; ball like a little baseball, covered with kid. Stanley Mortimer and Clarence C. Pell, who play together as a doubles team (TIME, Feb. 10) played each other once again in the finals of the National Singles at the Boston Tennis and Racquet Club. Figured as a sure loser because of his poorer showing this year, and because he had a harder struggle to get in the finals, Mortimer made only one point in the second game, four in the third...
...There will be a faculty of some 1,400 teachers and research ers' to bully, cajole, flatter. Greatest trust of all will be a student body, 14,000 strong, which lives in 124 fraternity and dormitory houses, goes to watch "Big Ten" football games in a $2,000,000 cement basin which seats 70,000, and gave Footballer Harold ("Red") Grange to the world...
Their danger lies in their rotting concrete foundations. The concrete penetrates water-logged ground, but was not made impervious to water. Consequently water, especially where it carries chemicals like sulphates in solution, has reacted with the concrete to make a cement mush. The security of the buildings depend on the tenacity of the soil keeping the columns of soft concrete from spreading...
...Adopted (40 to 35) tariff amendments putting cement on the free list, reducing the rates on straw hats and handkerchiefs, raising rates on flaxseed...