Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rubenstein employed the "true fresco" technique for the murals, a method used by the great Italian masters of the Renaissance. In this style the painting is done directly on the damp, freshly plastered wall. Since the plaster remains damp only for about fourteen hours, the artist must work quickly and must plan his work carefully day by day. He must plaster only as large an area as he can complete in a single day's work. The pigment employed in the "true fresco" technique is mixed with slaked lime and water, while the retouching of the various seams made...
...foot, 240-lb., 61-year-old master politician, standing near the President of the U. S. in Harvard Yard, had between him and the U. S. Senate a slim political stripling who. with an umbrella over his damp silk hat, was a mere marshal among Harvard's alumni in the crowd below...
...could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail. Red Currie got number 45F8575, a pair of stylish Sizzle Pants for $3.65. Sylvester Merrick, colored, got a new clothesline. Ira Pirtle ordered some rubber collars ("easily cleaned with a damp cloth,") number 33F8244, at three for 60?. The Widow Holcomb sent for a bottle of Youth Tone black hair dye, 8F3882, for $2.29. -Behind these orders lay the aspirations, tastes, customs, needs of a drowsy, mismanaged, tough Oklahoma country town that boasted a third-class post office, a weekly paper, a municipal...
Governor James V. Allred of Texas, himself a pollinosis victim, proclaimed a statewide "Hay Fever Day." At the Texas Centennial in Dallas, scores of damp-eyed snifflers assembled in an air-conditioned room, sang a plaintive song about rag-weed,* laid plans for permanent organization...
...matter of hiring and firing personnel," it reported, "there is much that suggests bureaucratic injustice." Case 1,081: "The family are all in bad health, which is being aggravated by the need of clothing, shoes and properly ventilated apartment. The bedrooms have no windows and the house is damp...