Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no danger from earthquakes in Boston, according to Professor Daly, "Panic is the only danger," he declared. "In theatres and halls heads can be protected from falling plaster by the hands. There will be no falling walls. A stampede for the door will be the only cause of loss of life from New England earthquakes...
...tinted plaster casts, replicas of famous examples of German artistic work, which are the prizes of the Germanic Museum, will be taken as models by the Germans. They plan to devote a large amount of space to the exhibition of such casts, which, the article points out, the Germanic Museum was the first to use successfully. Many of the casts will be modelled directly on those at present in the University...
...When I was in Berlin in 1923 I visited the grounds of the huge museum which is now under construction, and was told that one entire ward of the building will be devoted to plaster reproductions of architectural and sculptural subjects in the style of those in our local museum...
...Although the Germans possess most of the originals which have been our models, they have has nothing resembling our plaster collection, which is famous throughout artistic Germany for its size, scope and absolute accuracy. Such great interest has been aroused in German architectural circles that the success of the proposed collection is assured...
...pounds. "One of those bobbed-haired stenographers" said she used to lie in bed of a morning laughing at the sound of her family doing their daily "physical torture." "One morning, though, I got up to watch them, and ever since I've been helping them loosen the plaster on the ceilings...