Word: lath
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Narrow and dingy, made of lath and tarpaper, are the shacks where some of Johns-Manville's unskilled immigrant laborers, mostly Poles, live...
...Gothic stone structure of Trinity Church, the third on its site on Broadway at the head of Wall Street,† is crumbling in the excessively eroding climate of Manhattan. Workmen this week are charting the weakened spots in the walls; later will have to reinforce the plaster and lath the ceiling with wire...
...Armory had been erected an exact imitation, in lath, of the imperious porticos of George Washington's house in Virginia. In front of it, as the week went on, a thousand horses paraded, galloped, caracoled ? black and grey, hunter and hackney, carriage-horse and teamster. There were innumerable classes ; many times the judges clipped a blue rosette to a moist cheek-strap, many times a red, but only a few of the thousand that put their hoofs down so neatly into the tanbark ever came to wear one of those rosettes, and those few often. Notable in that thin...
...world to be amused. We are loath to be denied and, where we must, eagerly accord the benefit of the doubt. We realize that only spasmodically does he achieve his full destiny of Chorus to this University drama; only too often he is the conventional Vice, with his lath dagger become a slapstick. It is his business to be local and timely; it is our good fortune if he be sometimes sage and witty. And of the few good jokes abroad in the world, it is a wonder that he snares so many...
William Augustine Hanley '07, fullback prepared for College at Boston Lath School, where he played fullback on the team for three years. Two years age he was substitute on his Freshman eleven and last year played fullback on the University team. He is 20 years old 5 feet 11 inches tall, and weighs 185-pounds...