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Word: cements (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stake was divided last week into four wards, three in the city, one in Milwaukee, each directed by an elected bishop and two counselors. Elected Stake President was President William A. Matheson of Rollaway Bed Corp. Chicago Mormons are eligible for office in the Mormon agencies which cement the Church's life: Sunday schools, relief societies, mutual improvement associations for young people, a primary association for moppets, a genealogical society. Important to the Church is the last, through which good Mormons may seek data on their ancestors. By Mormon tenet, one's unshriven forebears may be admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stake No. 118 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Located on the two south gables of Kirkland House, the two dials are visible only to residents of Eliot whose windows face north on the cement court. They are not of much use even to those who can see them, however, for the eastern one is half an hour slow, while its western mate, over by Boylston Street, lags an hour behind. Perhaps the fact that the faces of the dials are upside down, with 12 o'clock on the bottom, might explain their unfortunate derangement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND SUNDIALS NOT IN TUNE; 30, 60 MINUTES SLOW | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

Just now leaking past Asia's censorship is the fact that Generalissimo Chiang has been building an elaborate line of cement pillboxes for machine guns and digging scores of miles of trenches so disposed as to make possible resistance to a Japanese attack launched from North China upon Central China in which are Shanghai and the capital, Nanking. South China, rebellious against Chiang only a few weeks ago, has now again acknowledged the Dictator's rule, but the great feature of Chiang's successful struggles during the past five years has been his way with Chinese Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang Dares | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...danger. A farmer named Rush dug roasted potatoes out of his ruined garden. Twelve million tons of coal have been destroyed, and 28,000,000 more lie along the paths of the fire's slow advance. Attempts have been made to head off the fire by sinking cement walls, by forcing steam underground, by diverting a creek into a shaft. All failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fire | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...high platform in the centre of the huge tent kitchens sat Supreme Culinary Chief Berchert giving orders into a microphone to thousands of German potato peelers, cooks and garbage workers. Each of seven enormous trucks held 34 big cooking pots or cauldrons heated by Diesel burners. Like cement from a cement mixer seething soups and stews flowed from these to be rushed on 400 light trucks to some 800,000 robust and hungry Germans, the rest being fed in Nürnberg homes and hotels. In the modest little Hotel Deutscher Hof, where one Adolf Hitler used to stay when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nazis at Numb erg | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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