Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to deduce the reason why these two countries are so opposed to the union. Aside from the complex which both France and Italy exhibit when confronted with a proposal to cement a combination which it took four bloody years to sever, there is, as usual, a powerful economic stimulus to that prejudice. The privilege of selling to the Balkan States, old and new, is extremely valuable; and France and Italy, while rivals themselves, are as one in their determination to keep Germany's fingers as far from the pie as possible. If the Anachluss were to go through German...
Over in the Biological Institute the instructors of Zoology are principally interested in small insects and the lowest forms of life. It is estimated that there are over two billion one-celled animals of various types kept by the department in glass jars and long cement tubes. There are, however, 50 large mussels, 75 ordinary frogs and 3 African bullfrogs, 300 minnows, 500 glow flies, 2 crayfish 30 leaches, 5000 tadpoles, 125 lizards of different kinds, about 100,000 worms of several varieties, some 300 tropical fish 350 mice and 15 rats included in the collection...
...were pink and new-looking with pudgy behinds and ridiculous tails. Two were so imprudent that they built their houses of straws and sticks, fiddled and danced and tootled on the flute all day, mocking their serious pig-brother who built a brick house and plastered it with wolfproof cement...
Strangest of all, most of the tales were true. So memorable was Queen Marie that Negroes still go by thousands to a nameless tomb in New Orleans' St. Louis Cemetery No. 3, scratch crosses on the crumbling cement and bricks. Official records list her as having been buried in her 80's in another tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, back of the Southern Railway's Terminal Station, in the heart of the oldtime redlight district. Many a Negro, an occasional white, still believes that if he scratches a cross on the nameless tomb...
What the U. S. principally remembers Rhodes for is the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford-founded in the pathetic belief that they would cement the bonds of Empire, bring back the strayed U. S. colonies to England's spiritual fold, encourage transatlantic handshaking generally. Reason why there are so many U. S. Rhodes Scholarships, says Biographer Millin: he thought there were still only the original 13 States in the U. S., assigned two to each (in 1929 modified by Parliament to twelve from each of eight U. S. districts...