Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly-are variations of this Green game, but experts shun them. Very serious and sleek in his neat tuxedo, his dead-white face immobile as plaster in the strong light, his oiled hair shining like paint, Ralph Greenleaf made run after run. Once he annoyed Rudolph who, having just missed his 24th shot, complained that Greenleaf had disturbed him by walking around. The referee said he had not noticed it. Greenleaf ran 41 in the first...
Pittsburgh Pirates. Veterans in mustard plaster sweaters, they found the new rules to their liking, recently came from behind to score ten goals against Toronto in one of the weirdest games ever played, then relapsed into the League cellar...
...engineer and founder of sorts, was asked to make a small gold rivet for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., Dr. Henry Roehner, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's rosy-round company dentist, last week took some gold used for making inlays and bridges, melted it, poured it into a plaster-of-paris mold. The resulting gold rod was about the size of a girl's eye tooth. It weighed two pennyweights, worth less than $2 in coin value and not more than $5 as dental gold. As a golden rivet, however, its intrinsic value was incalculable, for it | was made...
...students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof of the library, hurled down and shattered most of the balustrade, marched away chanting Belgium's national air La Brabançonne. Livid with rage, Monsignor Ladeuze had a third set of "stones" hastily moulded from plaster of Paris. With these in place the new Library of Louvain was formally dedicated on July 4, 1928. But soon afterward one Edmond Morren, father of two, citizen of Louvain, climbed upon the roof of the Library just before dawn clutching a stone-mason's pick. When police appeared Citizen...
...board, insulated against heat (used for partitions, kennels, stage props, mirror backs, outhouses) west of the Alleghanies. The Gypsum-Insulite agreement is to merge their distributing resources in all parts of the world since gypsum, like Insulite's products, is used in building. Mined, gypsum is used for moulding plaster, plasterboard, floor tile, sound insulation for talking cinema studios...