Word: fabricate
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...shortly after noon. Light through the girders and from many searchlights fall on a comparatively diminutive fabric of duralumin lying at one end of the dock. The duralumin section is 50 ft. long, 10 ft. high, and just one arc of the 133-ft. diameter ring which is to be the "keel" of the airship. A rope on standards marks off the round of the ring-to-be. Within the circumference are 400 dignitaries, official guests, each with a 3-in. disk of duraluminum, memento of the "ZRS-4 Ring-Laying...
That joint ownership complicates General Motors aviation activities and folds it into the entire U. S. flying fabric. Because...
...Guild's production of "Porgy" returns to the Hollis, after a year, with no loss in its striking effectiveness. It is a folk play, but without the easy movement of plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy a divorce...
...wishing to attract undue attention to himself, Author Roosevelt assures readers that "Our family is certainly no different in any material way from hundreds of thousands of others from Walla Walla to New York." He weaves a fabric of enchanted mediocrity about the venerable Roosevelt freehold, "Sagamore" (Oyster Bay, L. I.), in a book that is a medley of anecdotage about his clan's everyday affairs, many of which have been set down in his father's letters or elsewhere. The burial of pets, camping, meals, games, sports are all dealt with in a fair approximation...
...Roth, 18, plumber's helper, of Trenton, N. J., was caught crawling along a high girder in the Lakehurst hangar. He had a 175-ft. rope with him and had planned to slide down it to the top of the Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home on the Hamburg-American liner Thuringia, ignominiously...