Word: mortaring
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...descriptions (in French, English and Spanish) are more vivid militarily and, in general, less polite. One piece of howitzer ammunition is touted as having "a better ballistic coefficient than the American shell," and a 30-mm aircraft round is "very effective against persons." A 22-lb. French "Commando" mortar is perfect for those times when combat squads "have to fight violently at very short distances." The brief entries tend to a breathless specificity. A smoke bomb lets a tank "escape temporarily from the adversary's sight and prevent the latter from adjusting his fire"; a 105-mm antitank rocket...
...school here. He supports the drive, not so much for its specific goals, but because it is Harvard and because it is Harvard and because he revels in what he calls "very high class" dinners and functions Harvard provides for fund drive supporters. Had this been a "bricks-and-mortar" drive, it seems unlikely that Rand would have withdrawn support the way Barber might well have. "Nobody enjoys asking other people for money, but at least when you're doing it for Harvard, there's no question about the organization you're working for," he says, adding, "I am very...
...layman with a longstanding interest in ecclesiastical architecture, I found James Wilde's "In New York: Mortar and the Cathedral" [May 25] encouraging. It is refreshing to know that men are willing, even eager, to contribute to a monument whose completion is tentatively 30 years away...
...efforts of Gerrity and Coburn suggest that solutions to the deterioration problems of Harvard pipes, radiators, wires, plaster, paint, brick and mortar exist, but the money dilemma lingers. Solutions to the problems, if found, will need funding--much more, many suspect, than the $12 million earmarked for the Houses in the capital fund drive. And raising more dollars, especially for important, but unglamorous and invisible mechanical work, will be hard. "Nobody's going to give a lot of money to something that already has someone else's name on it," Oscar Handlin, director of the University Library and Pforzheimer University...
...rest in the cathedral. The bishop haltingly explained such hallowed ground was not for masons' wives. Some weeks later his lordship politely inquired where the mason had buried his wife. "There," said the mason, pointing to a freshly set pier stone. He had mixed her ashes in the mortar. "You are very rare and precious to God," the bishop humbly replied. -By James Wilde