Word: lathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...