Word: cements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shower, looked on and listened. The Republican Glee Club of Columbus, Ohio, the boys' band of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home gave musical selections. Representatives of many fraternal lodges to which the late President belonged deposited emblems of their orders in the steel casket set in the cement foundation. Then Mr. Dawes, with the very trowel which the Mason-President last used?at Ketchikan, Alaska, in laying the cornerstone of a masonic lodge?placed the marble slab in place...
...Professor Gay in Harvard I will be giving a summary of the economic progress of the nineteenth century at 9 o'clock. At 11 o'clock, Professor Whitney will give the lecture which has the best chance to triumph over my weakened condition, in Emerson J. The Plelade Cement Marot, Montaigne and Pascal, great names of the high Renaissance in France, will be his subject.--Then there are at noon Professor Demos in Emerson A, on "Ethics as an Art," and Professor Hill in his Cast lecture on Borodin in the Music Building, one of which should make me cross...
...felt the alleged initial British demand of 580 million pounds too low. As Count Volpi put it, in his now famous "favorite English sentence": "It all depends on how you look at it." 2) The Churchill-Volpi fiscal deal was persistently rumored last week to be only the visible cement of a British-Italian "understanding" with respect to mutual interests in the Near East. Diplomats opined that without a single pen's scratching upon a treaty it was quite possible for Britain to have got her "money's worth" from Italy...
...been officially promulgated, and that therefore the protests of the U.S. were considered premature. Attention was called to the scarcely consoling fact that foreign nationals may apply to the Mexican courts if they consider themselves discriminated against. Finally many a honeyed word was poured out to cement the friendly relations between the U.S. and Mexico...
...afflicted with noises like these. Can anything be done to keep you from hearing simultaneously the matrimonial differences of the slovenly young couple upstairs, the radio in 4-A, the quacking of the saxophone across the hall and the telephonic improprieties of the bachelor below? Steel girders, plaster and cement can muffle but never quite extinguish sound; but last week a scientist came forward with the statement that noise can be kept out of a room just as well as a snowstorm can; that a scream can be locked up. He, Dr. Paul Heyl, Chief of the U. S. sound...