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...beasts their striped or tawny elegance, he scooped the rock and lived within it. Clothing and architecture developed together like concentric cortices of a springing rod. Architecture is the outer whorl; its fashions make their impress on clothes, the inner. Tailors snip and snip, masons slap on their lime; steeples and toppers affront the sky, eaves overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour-de-force...
...Leeds, England, 100 years ago, that Joseph Aspdin discovered that a new building material could be produced by mixing pulverized lime and clay in correct proportions and driving out the carbonic acid gas with heat. Aspdin was not a chemist or scientist; and his momentous discovery was made by accidental experimentation. Up until 1872, there was not a Portland cement plant in this country. Today the U. S. industry represents a capital investment of over $300,000,000, employs from 25,000 to 40,000 men, produces annually 25,000,000 tons of cement...
Since the war this Spanish novelist has been thrust from the lime-light back upon the obscure wings of the stage. He intends now to recover his stellar role by leading a new crusade against Spanish military despotism. The present foe is not the Hun, but the repressive Directory headed by General Primo de Rivera. It is against this hydra of temporal and intellectual enslavement that Ibanez is trying to arouse universal indignation...
...least ameliorated, if a larger amount of carbohydrate or sugar-containing food had been taken in the diet the night before or the morning of the race. They also suggest that it might be advisable for the runners to take sugar during the race in the form of lime drops or some similar confection...
...proposal advanced was that the time at which the Japanese exclusion clause is to become effective might be set forward. In this way the State Department would be given lime in which to break with due formality the Gentlemen's Agreement, by which Japan has voluntarily restricted her emigration to this country, and to say a few kind words to the Mikado...