Word: cements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gossip of enemies, the Guild was in no way responsible for the burning of convents in Spain; unbiased, the Guild would have burned all kinds of churches if it were burning anything. Somewhat more rational speeches were made by Pumper Benjamin Franklin Affleck of Chicago, president of Universal Portland Cement Co. (he once pumped for 35? a Sunday in Belleville, Ill.); by Pumper Frank D. Waterman (fountain pens), 1925 candidate-reject for Mayor of New York City; and by Pumper John M. Gibbons, general counsel for New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, who pumped for five years without...
...direction of education--of the most practical and "worth-while" sort--for everybody. The modern young business man, we are told, who has taken four extra years out of his life to get himself educated desires to study subjects that will be useful to him in the cement business, in the manufacture of washing machines, in personnel management or building subways. Latin and Greek, either by a knowledge of the languages themselves or a complete familiarity with classical culture, are of no more use to him as working tools in the pursuit of any of these occupations than are Sanskrit...
Quick Millions (Fox). This is another racketeer picture, with the building racket as background for a fable illuminated by a far more prosaic fancy than City Streets (see above). There are shots of racketeers playing water on cement, blowing up buildings, ruining milk-cans with bullets. The frustrated hero is Spencer Tracy. By blackmailing builders he rises to become the silent partner of a rich building contractor. He tries to cut a figure in society to win the love of his partner's sister. In the end he is shot down by the lowly racketeers whom he has learned...
...building stands on Divinity Avenue next to the Semitic Museum and is a highly decorative structure in brick, cement, and marble, consisting of two main stories, a penthouse and a two-floored basement. Around the outside between the first and second stories are twelve round carved marble plaques set in the walls, depicting the signs of the zodiac. On. entering, one is faced by a wide marble staircase similar to the one in Widener but not as large. Paneling and painting are now being done in the interior...
...worried about split infinitives? If such a sentence as ''Our object is to further cement trade relations" gives you pause, hark to Mr. Thurber: "My own way out of all this confusion would be simply to say 'Our object is to let trade relations ride,' that is, give them up, let them go." Should you say, "I feel bad" or ''I feel badly"? Says Thurber: "As a general thing, if the illness or pain really exists, and is acute, it is better to use the shorter word 'bad,' because it is more easily said and will bring assistance quicker...