Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financial or the naval power of Britain, the industrial power of Germany, or even the high birth rate of Italy. Her role always has been to represent the general interest of Europe. She is the cement of small nations...
...Austen's limousine was stopped by a cement safety zone, while its glass windows became splinters. A passing motorist rushed him to Westminster Hospital, and next day he was sufficiently recovered to set out for a holiday at Aix-les-Bains, France...
...directly as their utter ignorance of what the game really is. To most persons, not particularly those in custodial care, the game of checkers is a more or less dull affair, in which one should: 1) try to take two for one or three for two; 2) try to cement the opposing forces in such manner that one's opponent is physically unable to make a move (calomel and dynamite to the contrary, not withstanding), etc., etc. ad nauseam. Some of the innocents think that they should, regardless, set up a strong position in the centre, or that under...
...made of sawdust failed to burn them. They were shingles belonging to Dr. Paul G. Von Hildebrandt, German-American chemist, with a formula for impregnating a sawdust composition against rain, wear, flame. He can, he says, make fireproof bricks, tiles, sheets, at far less than the present cost of cement and metal. Angling for capital, he promised that the ingredients for his process could all be obtained plentifully within U. S. borders; that he would turn mounds of sawdust into mounds of golddust...
Along the Germano-Polish frontier heavy earth charges of dynamite sent clods, cement and steel hurtling...