Word: damping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working in eight-and twelve-hour shifts, the students made a 4-ft. opening in the side of the cellar, rigged up a block and tackle to haul out the damp sandy soil on which most of Berlin is built, and installed a ventilation system made up of lengths of stovepipe. To get the job done, the students had to sacrifice one college semester and raise about $3,750, which went for such equipment as a Volkswagen bus for removing earth, an electric drill, cables, field telephones, miners' lamps and tools...
...19th centuries. The most recent pieces of traditional art in the show are wood carvings 50 years old. The older things have survived because they are made of terra cotta. bronze, iron or brass; millions of wood sculptures have been destroyed over the ages by fire, termites, jungle damp or the iconoclasm of Christian missionaries...
...recorded works of Frankie and other customers. It has a red and black floor, Indian brass hanging lamps, paneled partitions and-in Sebring's private cell-velvet drapes. A visit begins with a mandatory shampoo (Sebring, like most of the "new wave" of barbers, prefers to work on damp hair...
...ruined corridors and dank corners Welles moved his props: the Advocate's gigantic gilt bed, hundreds of dripping candles, decaying tables and books. Wrote Director William Chappell in the London Sunday Times: "Welles discovered Kafka's world, with the genuine texture of pity and terror on its damp and scabrous walls, real claustrophobia in its mournful rooms, and intricacies of shape and perspective on a scale that would have taken months and cost fortunes to build...
...been a cold, damp spring in Spain, but this has not deterred the first wave of the estimated 10 million foreigners-one for every three Spaniards-who will visit Spain this year, particularly the booming Costa Brava and Costa del Sol. which have turned into a kind of noisy, cut-rate Riviera, where conservative Spaniards sneer that the girls go to Mass in bikinis...