Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look for something in a department store is a task the grue- someness of. which brings about in normal people one of two reac- tions. Some long to return next day with a dynamiting crew and a trench mortar to raze to the ground and destroy utterly the madhouse of raucous voices, fetid air, stale perfumes; the shouldering, stupid, perspiring women who just want to know "how much this is"; clerks who indicate, by a sad shake of the head, that the English language is a closed book to them. Other customers, less bloody-minded, merely dream of saying...
...Rachael Galpern, 14, was taking a hot soap-bath before going to a party. Hearing a slight scratching in the ceiling above her, she raised her eyes in time to see a pointed grey face peer at her from a hole in the plaster. The hole widened, the thin mortar crumbled, and an enormous black rat fell into the water with her, splashed about, caressed her with its clammy paws and insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed "Oh, rats!" Rachael...
...alleged that "General" Frank Sutton, "British soldier of fortune and an expert on trench mortars," has been retained for some time past as a military consultant with dictatorial powers, by Chang. And cables picture him as not only reorganizing Chang's entire military machine, but as having devised "a new and easily manufactured form of trench mortar," which the minions of Chang are supposed to be turning out in large numbers...
...Second: President Lowell has realized that it is not bricks and mortar that make a university but the high character of the teaching staff, and he has sought out and secured for the University outstanding men in most directions of teaching and research so that the depletion of the ranks by age and retirements has been made good and the standing of the University has been improved by his selections...
...Hebraic mortar cemented the foundations of American democracy...