Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that all the figures, half a hundred of them, are the work of a single encausticist, industrious, 23-year-old Katherine Stuberg, of Los Angeles. Encausticist Stuberg comes by her talent naturally. For three generations her family has modeled the hairless heads of statesmen, patriots, murderers and heroes in clay, cast them in wax, fitted them with wigs, glass eyes and mustaches, painstakingly tinted them to the life. Reporters visiting Miss Stuberg's studio found the young encausticist still at work on the nose of Albert Einstein. In a special post of honor was the head of Mae West...
General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...
...same day the President made public a letter to S. Clay Williams, head of the National Industrial Recovery Board, ordering him to survey the possibility of stabilizing employment in the automobile industry. Said Edsel Ford to reporters: "That is exactly what we believe. Our men are working on an average of 36 hours per week per year. Regular employment should be the goal of every manufacturer...
Compressed Clay...
...Casagrande found that a hard dry piece of clay when compressed becomes soft mud because clay is made up of minute mineral particles and voids filled with water. Compression gradually forces the water out, the rate of consolidation depending on the depth of the strata and the weight supported. A classic example of the subsidence is the Tower of Pisa, which furnishes fairly accurate data on the factors of weight and shape. Mistakes in foundation engineering are responsible for more damage and loss of life than all other causes combined...