Word: cements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incense and turned away. With this simple ceremony the funeral itself was over. Then came relays of 120 pallbearers, great men thus greatly honored, who bore the coffin to the special funeral railway station, and placed it on the funeral car. . . . At dawn, the Emperor was entombed in a cement vault set into a hill overlooking Fujiyama, beloved and sacred mountain of Japan. Workmen at once began to heap up an immense tumulus over the vault; and since no human foot is allowed to tread above an Emperor, the workmen had to be "purified" by a peculiar rite. After this...
...dogs grew vexed, last week, in the famed Kutta Nagar (Dog City) built near Baroda by the rich and pious Hindu Shet Arjunlal. He, conscious that it is a Hindu sin for man or beast to kill, has impounded dogs innumerable in a 300-acre tract completely floored with cement so that not even a mouse can get in to be killed. There pups eat pancakes-or starve-and big dogs get no better fare than nutted biscuits. Last week the dogs rebelled, as by a secret animal accord, sat back on their haunches and poured out shuddering howls...
Serving the Emergency Fleet Corp. as consulting engineer, he invented the cement gun. For his African field work he invented a cinema camera. In 1924 he caused a ripple in sculpture and religious circles with his bronze, The Chrysalis, allegorizing mankind's evolution, from the ape. He married twice: Delia T. Donning of Beaver Dam, Wis., who divorced him in 1923; Mary Lee Jobe, mountaineer, of Manhattan, who was with...
...Conservative administration was slated for a long period with the reins of government securely in its hands. A feeling of general security and prosperity seemed to cement it firmly in office. But the inability of the regime to cope with a grave problem of national importance, as that of last May, other than by merely "muddling through" for the time being, has surely shaken the confidence of the people. A delay such as this is an actual loss no matter from what angle it is viewed. Idle manpower, expense of maintenance of the mines without production from them, an increasing...
...statistics concerning the construction work reveal that 10,000 barrels of cement and 25,000 bricks will be necessary to complete the bridge. These materials are hoisted out on the river by a derrick 83 feet high. The depth of the river where the spans were built varies from 12 to 18 feet. For the last month and a half 175 men have been employed to hasten the work of construction...