Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another two-legged monster more ancient and primitive than man. About two weeks ago, Michael Kosinski, a contractor, noticed some curious tracks in a sandstone ledge near Hallton, 90 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. He told his brother James, who works for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. James took plaster casts of the tracks to Dr. J. LeRoy Kay, who hurried out for a first-hand look at them...
Inch by Inch. The work of surveying the mansion, went slowly because for big sections of the house there were no blueprints. To locate old beams, test old brick, discover where generations of workmen had installed gas lines, electric wiring and plumbing, investigators were probing into walls, chipping off plaster, going over everything inch by inch...
...quarterback Bill Henry runing the show for three periods with one eye sealed tight by a scratch; Captain Kenny O'Donnell scoring what proved to be the winning touchdown with his fractured leg in a plaster cast; third string center Chuck Glynn saving a touchdown by knocking Keller out of bounds on the Harvard two on fourth down; third-string tailback Jim Kenary intercepting a Furse pass on the Harvard seven; and above all, it was the finesse with which everybody carried out his assignment, whether it was blocking, tackling, or running. "The most beautiful drilled team I've seen...
...expensive" Blamire said. "Fire inspection rules require steel fire doors, and we'd have to plaster the basement ceiling." As estimated, one fire door would cost about...
...secret, Nadelman was developing a new form of sculpture. His final works, rescued from the obscurity of his Riverdale attic, were the hits of last week's show. Made mostly in plaster or papier-mâché (a mixture of paste and paper pulp), they ranged from life-size figures to tiny dolls. Proof of his brilliance lay in the fact that the tiny ones, of which he did hundreds, had a monumental quality. With their archaic smiles, compactness and classic grace of pose, they looked like quick sketches for heroic statues. But that was not Nadelman...