Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city agreed. But an architect's committee argued so long that the time limit for the city appropriation was exceeded and the Pulitzers had to make up the $10,000 difference. Finally selected was a waterproof Italian marble from Trieste which would not crack or chip. But it cost $35,000. Once again the Brothers Pulitzer made up the $10,000 difference. In less than 20 years they had spent $45,000 of their own on their father's $50,000 statue...
Despite the King's allusion to "struggling against mud," Queensway has in fact been cut in sandstone so firm that the "sand hogs" never had to work under air pressure. In 1925 the chipping was started by Princess Mary with a pneumatic drill. Two pilot tunnels, each 12 ft. in diameter, were cut out from Liverpool and Birkenhead until in 1928 only a thin curtain of stone hung between them in mid stream. Out to chip this down and shake hands under the Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug...
...last week. Trooping along the shore near Chicago, a bevy of geology students from Central Y. M. C. A. College of Arts & Science were so surprised to see parts of a submerged reef well known to chartmakers jutting a few inches above water that they waded out to chip off samples. When they brought back their specimens to Instructor James H. Glasgow, University of Chicago graduate student, he stared at the stuff, decided it was white coral, sent it to university geologists who confirmed his opinion. Divers were sent to survey Lake Michigan's coral reef. It parallels...
Like a poker player coming into a game of royal reds and blues with but one white chip to offer, President Stenio Vincent of Haiti arrived in Washington today to confer with President Roosevelt concerning Haiti's financial troubles...
...exchange may be termed a white chip trading rendezvous for stocks. Mining and oil stocks are naturally of a speculative character and we do not attempt to make the public think they are anything Ise. A hole in the ground today may be a mine of value tomorrow, while a mine of value today may be a hole of tremendous proportions the following...