Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zero hour 150,000 words of controversy were dumped upon the public. Vitriolic bomb shells of recrimination burst in the camps of Johnson and Darrow while Sinclair's trench mortar added to the loud discord. By and large the U. S. took the bombardment without flinching...
Wearing a white apron over his white robes, Pope Pius XI stood before a doorway in the portico of St. Peter's on Easter Monday. Chanting prayers, he grasped a golden trowel, pushed three gilded bricks in place, applied three pats of mortar to them. Thus did he formally close the "Holy Door" and bring to an end the "Holy Year of Human Redemption" celebrating the 1,900th anniversary of Christ's death (TIME, April 3, 1933). During the year 1,200,000 Pilgrims had come to Rome, gaining full jubilee indulgence for their sins by visiting Rome...
...mottled like marble. It may have a fragrant odor, or an overpowering stench. Some experts claim that even chemical analysis is shaky and that ambergris, like a fine wine, may be truly identified only by its bouquet. For use in perfumes raw ambergris must be ground in a mortar, soaked for six months in 95% alcohol...
...condition of a whole people. In a city which was probably hit harder than any other in Europe, the Socialists had managed to erect splendid state-owned apartment houses and to build up a magnificent municipal system of public utilities; in Vienna their dreams were realized in brick and mortar and it stood as both a rebuke and a challenge to the other nations...
Trouble with the mortar between the bricks found in the Business School Buildings has also been discovered in the Houses and on the stone facings of the gates about Dunster House. Workmen have been at work for several weeks in an effort to stop the decaying of the mortar on the gate posts. The stone facing on the posts is only one half an inch thick and the mortar has dried and fallen from its position, leaving the concrete beneath to the exposure of the weather which has already started to rot the inner section of the pillars. Expensive major...