Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cosmic rays were light rays or photons of enormously high frequency and short wave length. He concluded that they were the by-products of atom-building in interstellar space; that when light-weight atoms suddenly combined to form heavier ones, a slight excess of matter-like bricklayer's mortar scraped from the wall-was turned into high-frequency light according to the Einstein equation. To him this was a peculiarly satisfying interpretation as it bespoke "the Creator still...
...cannot be anything but hopeful about the new graduate school. It is ambitiously, but well-planned. The fact-finding committee, under President Dodds of Princeton, is an absolutely necessary adjunct to the School's organization, for its foundation is not a question of bricks and mortar, but of ideas...
...plan couples with the scholarships a new group of professorships, designed to provide for research in the borderlands of knowledge lying between recognized departmental fields. Here, likewise, is an imaginative conception which has sound, practical bearings. Both ideas are refreshing in that they ignore the bricks and mortar to which so much of recent educational funds in America has been devoted and regard only human beings, The group of especially gifted students, representing all the states, is counted upon to stimulate the minds alike of student body and faculty. The "university professors," answerable directly to the president, seem certain...
...Outer Wall, shut and sandbagged the central gate and answered the attackers' fire. The train ground to a stop, began backing up, backed out into the night. Past midnight it came chugging back, this time spitting bullets from every window. The garrison, equipped now with trench mortars and machine guns, blazed away furiously. Nobody hit anything, except for one Chinese coolie who stepped fatally into the way of a trench mortar shell that fell short. After a while the steel train backed sulkily off again. Twice more, at dawn and at 7:40 a. m., the train lunged...
...desolate coral reef 65 mi. off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies, 18 sets of officers' quarters, a hospital, a chapel-all surrounded by a huge wall jutting with bastions. It was a sight to swell every U. S. heart. But as time passed...