Word: cements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ladies passed in an orderly fashion through the gates of the Berkeley stadium, some 25,000 merry rooters climbed up an elevation known as Tightwad Hill, which overlooks the field, and from which every play can be seen as clearly as if you were sitting on a slab of cement you had paid three dollars for. So the two camps-the purseproud and the gay-waved flags at each other, while down on the green parchesi-board the two teams wavered up and down until Washington...
Thus a venture under development since 1912 apparently signalized its successful consummation. Cables report that the "iron house" has been definitely launched in Britain. The new structures are made of large cast plates bolted together and a thin outer coating of cement is applied for "effect" and protection. Bright red tiled roofs and porches of the same color are said to have appealed greatly to the mine laborers for whom the houses have been especially designed. Before drawing up the architectural plans, the miners were canvassed thoroughly to determine what "features" they desired. Replied a large majority of the future...
...absolute of Christian thrones, the obscure private rallied some of his disbanded Cossack comrades about him, cajoled and coerced them into a little army. By the example of his extraordinary personal bravery, he spurred them on to acts of organized plunder which enabled him to pay them regularly and cement their loyalty. In February, 1921, he terrorized Persia into accepting him as her Minister of War; by October, 1923, he had become Premier and Dictator of Persia; last week the cables carried confused reports which apparently herald his metamorphosis from Dictator into Monarch...
...Sacramento, knowledge came to William M. Bowman, pioneer settler, that he like other men must die. He chose his pallbearers, dug a grave, lined it with cement, built a coffin, hewed a stone from native granite. That was 18 years ago when he was 73. Since the Grim Reaper continued to elude him, Mr. Bowman thought of a scheme. He built a flagpole over his grave and attached a flag and halyard. When he feels life departing, he will crawl into the coffin, raise the flag, and the people in the valley, knowing his signal, will climb the hill...
...most important feature of the whole trip was a stone church found on the way home at Gotthaab, Greenland, which he was certain had been erected by early Norsemen. It was finely preserved; the walls, laid without cement, being smooth as a ship's deck. It had evidently served as a fortress, with peepholes for windows. Ruined homesteads lay near. Next summer MacMillan will investigate the Gotthaab remains more fully, and other remains on an island near Labrador, to establish the route by which the Vikings penetrated his native New England...