Word: cements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reproduced almost overnight by Emilio Frederico Disario, a young Boston sculptor, in his little studio at the Dorchester Cement Store Company. Disario made one trip to the Yard to view the statue of John Harvard, from which the replica was made, and then spent a few hours at the studio modelling the plaster positive. According to most critics, however, in spite of the haste in which Disario finished his work, the replica is remarkable not only for likeness to the original, but also for the "character" which the sculptor modelled into the face...
...score ever be forgotten by newer generations, one memory will always persist: the chivalrous manner in which the Princeton men expressed their joy. Their regard for the shattered hopes of thousands of Crimson supporters will do more than any other single event of the past few years to cement the growing friendliness between the two universities...
...building material could be produced by mixing pulverized lime and clay in correct proportions and driving out the carbonic acid gas with heat. Aspdin was not a chemist or scientist; and his momentous discovery was made by accidental experimentation. Up until 1872, there was not a Portland cement plant in this country. Today the U. S. industry represents a capital investment of over $300,000,000, employs from 25,000 to 40,000 men, produces annually 25,000,000 tons of cement...
...great day of Portland cement did not set in until cheap structural steel became a commonplace. The reinforced concrete building then came in, as well as concrete roads, concrete canal locks and railroad abutments and many other forms of substitution for solid stonework. Without concrete no less than fabricated steel, the modern skyscraper could never have been built...
Aspdin named his material "Portland cement" because of its resemblance to a type of building stone then commonly quarried on the Isle of Portland. Although the inventor's process has subsequently been improved upon in many ways, the name he gave the product has remained unchanged...