Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sculptors at first were smug: no one expects a shortage in stone, wood or plaster. But last fortnight they got a jolt: a Government order specifying that after Jan. 1 U.S. foundries could cast no more sculpture in bronze...
This oddity is not the only attraction for Medical students within the Museum. Among other interesting items are the original other inhaler, casts of surgeon's hands, collections of acromegalie skulls. 600 prehistoric Peruvian skulls, and plaster heads of many criminals...
Thus in case incendiary bombs fell on Harvard Hall during a lecture trapping students under fallen being and plaster and starting from the warden's first job would be to inform the report center. If the damage were not sertena, the College would cope with it alone. If outside help were needed, the head Harvard warden would notify the city authorities...
...herself. Kambers himself decided on the Harvard angle and approached Coles H. Phinizy '42, who had succeeded Bowie, with the proposition that the 'Poon invite the second Jean Harlow to its spring dance. She wouldn't come, Kambers promised, but she might do some stunt like sending a plaster cast of her leg as a substitute. Phinizy refused his offer until he became exasperated, and then, in a moment of weakness, which he has since regretted, he accepted. Kambers immediately sent off a wire, and Woodworth, far from sending a plaster cast stand-in, headed Cambridgeward...
...Where they had stood there was a crater, with two mounds of debris on each side of it. ... Ford climbed on to the debris ... he found that it was made up of an extraordinary texture of brick and plaster rubble . . . pieces of crockery, often unbroken, all made into a homogeneous, tight-pressed pudding...