Word: mortar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brick masons at East Chicago, Ind., slashed at mortar with their trowels last week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf...
...wish to make it plain that we are more interested in contributing to the great architecture of the world than in standardizing the bricks and mortar of which it must be made." Thus Milton B. Medary Jr., Philadelphian, president of the American Institute of Architects, epitomizing the purpose for which the Institute has reorganized its Committee on Allied Arts. In order to emphasize their profession as an Art, the architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome...
...addition to the Lexington, Neb., high school was under construction. Until a new flagpole should be ready, the authorities demonstrated their patriotism by having the school's U. S. flag nailed to the top of the workmen's 60-foot hoisting tower (with elevator for bricks, mortar, etc.). The flag flew there bravely by day, and drooped there darkly by night. The Girl Scouts and local War veterans protested, but nothing was done until one night last week, unable to stand it longer, Girl Scout Mildred Sorenson, 15, climbed the hoisting tower and chopped the flag free. Coming...
...massive moulder of mortar and manipulator of men reclined uncomfortably upon a pile of boards and twitched slightly from unavoidable rheumatism. "Besides, it's too damp in here: I'm gettin" so I can't walk I'm so tied...
Harvard stands for ideas, and ideas live and breed while stones and mortar crumble. Would it not be more appropriate both to Harvard and to the war-killed men whose memory we seek to celebrate, to endow a chair or fund to promote the abolition of war? C. D. Stillman...