Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this bill he has just added the suggestion that the memorial include a replica of the tree as it appeared a few years before its removal, a replica to be similar to work done by Dionecio Rodriquez of Mexico City, who has reproduced oak and cedar trees in cement for the park departments of Houston and San Antonio, Texas...
...states, "It is impossible to convey with words an adequate idea of the perfection of the work of Rodriquez. It is the coloring which makes his reproductions truly remarkable. He uses no forms, but fashions every piece of bark, and makes every weather check by hand before the surface cement has hardened. His color process is secret...
...days signing dismissals from the Prohibition forces, took pen in hand one day last week and signed an order addressed to U. S. customs officials. The order instructed the customs men to make a stiff increase in the duty on automobile and bicycle parts, and certain other hardware including cement and vulcanized fibres, imported from France...
...Roman ruin from which it was retrieved was a forum -the largest yet found in England -built by Emperor Hadrian in A. D. 130. Wroxeter's name in Hadrian's day was Uriconium. Uriconian relics: a steel-sheathed cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints of cerebro-spinal meningitis...
...functioning. Peering in over the muddy mixture, he saw that a stone had lodged in the machinery. Practical; he crawled inside to remove the stone. Alert, a fellow-laborer noticed the machine was idle. Dutiful, he started it working. After three minutes, Laborer Lacey, his mouth and nose bubbling cement, his clothes torn completely off, his body cut and bruised, made his shrieks heard, was rescued...