Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the big mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan, the hippopotamus ballerina whose blimplike cavortings in a pas de deux with Ben Ali Gator literally bring down the house in a wreck of flying plaster; Bacchus and his donkey Jacchus, who trip and roll through the Grant Woodland scape of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...
...soft cookies." Sculptor Smith calls himself a humanitarian, regards his medals as a purely personal protest against war, which he resents because it may keep him from his work. "War just isn't right anyhow," says he. It took him three years, working at night cutting the plaster matrices with power-driven tools, to make the 15 medals. From his cabin in the Adirondack Mountains he commutes periodically to Manhattan in a truck which he and his wife use for pleasure as well as for business trips...
...soon as swelling disappears, a soft plaster cast is wound directly over both leg and pins. Several days later, depending on the type of fracture, the patient is fitted with a "walking iron"-a narrow, U-shaped strip of iron about one and a half feet long. The base slips under the instep like a stirrup, the two long arms are bound with more plaster up either side...
...Lashio that clear night there were 2,000 U. S.-built trucks, into which 5,000 coolies of many tribes lifted cargoes of many sorts-wings of airplanes, lock nuts for lathes, rolls of adhesive plaster, flashlights, tins of high-octane gasoline, rifle barrels, barrels of kerosene, raw cotton: materials of war and of war economy. The loading dumps covered acres. Some $20,000,000 worth of China's future lay there...
...Plaster of Paris absorbs moisture, and the wetter it gets, the lower its electrical resistance. Dr. George John Bouyoucos of Michigan State College made use of this principle in a handy gadget which tells farmers the moisture content of their fields. Blocks of plaster of Paris the size of safety-match boxes are buried with wires leading to the surface. The wetter the soil, the lower the resistance of the buried blocks. Measurements can be taken by merely hooking the surface wires to a Wheatstone bridge, which measures the electrical resistance. By burying a number of plaster blocks...