Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French public buildings, ministries, town halls, consulates, schools, etc., etc., word went out last week that they were about to receive new Mariannes. Officials prepared to sell or destroy their chipped and grimy plaster busts of the lady who for the past 44 years has represented La République...
...against the government, and has no real friend except his mother," began Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. At the platform's left stood two glistening spheres on stark pedestals, capable of generating a million & a half volts of artificial lightning. From the shadows glowered the vast skeleton of a plaster dinosaur. All along the walls lay the paraphernalia of modern science. In every seat sat a scientist tensely waiting to hear how oppositely the two U. S. Nobel Laureates in Physics explained cosmic rays-Dr. Millikan, 64, preacher's son, head of California Institute of Technology; and Dr. Arthur...
...Shanghai I made a plaster head of Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese poet and philosopher, during the Japanese bombardment. Dr. Shih himself was in great danger as he was being sought by the Japanese. When troops began sacking the city I hid the head in the bathtub and my husband and I moved it out in a basket before it was dry. Two days later the hotel was sacked...
...making his molds, he used a composition of plaster of Paris and special earths, making a far more porous mold than generally used, thus allowing metallic gases to escape, preventing minute bubbles in the metal...
About five years ago, at the height of the Currier & Ives craze, knowing dealers began buying up Rogers groups wherever they could find them. What the Lotos Club had to show last week were not the flyspecked, chocolate colored plaster casts of the average collection but the heavy bronze originals from which these casts were made, property of Miss Katherine Rogers, the sculptor's daughter...