Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maid Raisin Growers Association California Fruit Growers' Exchange California Prune and Apricot Growers Portland Cement Association Dairymen's League Cooperative Association Florida Citrus Exchange...
...Supreme Court in session was hearing the argument of a learned barrister who appeared on behalf of the Cement Manufacturers' Protective Association, party to a case there pending. The barrister, whose face had not been seen there for some time, concluded his remarks. Mr. Chief Justice Taft announced that the Court would hear no argument on the following...
...earthquake (TIME, Mar. 9, SCIENCE) to which the headline so meagrely referred. There was the proud tower of the Woolworth Building cracking like a piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen lamp turned his eyes, glazed with horror, upon the erstwhile screaming woman. They looked...
...reality no more than stone pipes bolstered with rubble. The weight of the dome has made every one of them shift or crack. That the Cathedral's solidity could be amply restored by the simple method of grouting. To grout is to force behind the stone facings liquid cement which, oozing through the broken rubble, would petrify it into a rigid mass capable of sustaining any weight. That grouting would do no more good than grouching, for the piers themselves rested on a weak foundation which delved little below the crypt. The only way to keep St. Paul...
...dispelled the fears which we entertained when we first decided to construct our station on top of the Stadium. Although we thought that the location could not fail to be infinitely better than that of last year in Westmorley Hall, we were very much afraid that the steel and cement construction of the Stadium might have some bad effects on its efficiency...