Word: cements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being "sent down" as the possible penalty, the hero's prank is performed in broad daylight before an admiring student crowd. In reality, when playful Oxonians have felt an urge to embellish the Martyrs' Memorial, the chamber pot has been applied in darkness, in stealth and with cement...
...occasion for Southern California to recapitulate what it has that makes champions: 1) cement courts, which favor an aggressive game and teach youngsters to hit hard; 2) year-round sunshine; 3) Perry Jones...
...outside San Antonio and Austin, Tex., there is lively bidding each night at $1,200 for big truckloads of lumber worth $720 at ceiling prices. In almost every rural area, war veterans with priorities bought new tractors, sold them back of'the barn at $500 profit. In Florida, cement building blocks (ceiling 17?) had a current black-market price...
...four weeks since George Marshall had flown home to Washington, the Chinese had fragmented his carefully fitted but lightly glued jigsaw picture of unity. In Manchuria there was large-scale fighting. Marshall, knowing the fragility of his pattern, had gone home for stronger cement. He would need it, if the puzzle were to be reassembled and given any permanent form...
...improved cement Marshall brought from Washington-more definite promises of monetary and commercial aid, encouragement of private investment-would help strengthen the Central Government's efforts to establish its sovereignty and restore order. But Marshall well knew that no foreigner-however great his prestige - could mend a 20-year rift, or could stay indefinitely to enforce a truce. The Chinese themselves must do both, and some recognized the fact...