Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tests will be conducted over the spring vacation to determine the decible reduction effected by applying heavy coats of paint to the walls and by providing thresholds and gaskets for the doors. Gropius, however, had recommended the application of a specially designed porous plaster to the walls...
...added that he knew the sound-proofing was faulty when the buildings were designed. "I wrote the authorities for the right to plaster the walls, but the project was on a tight budget and I could not get permission...
...watching his family make patterns with the sand on a Long Island beach. That was when he conceived the idea for his sand-sculpturing technique. Now his most important sculpture is made by modeling details in reverse patterns in wet sand and then filling these molds with concrete or plaster of paris. The result is a kind of bas-relief...
...bright skies, then frozen at night into suicidal speed runs. U.S. Army Private Leslie Streeter broke a shoulder bone. His teammate, Ragnar Ulland, soared to a crash landing in a practice ski jump and was badly bruised. Italy's downhill ski champion, Maria-Grazia Marchelli, fresh from a plaster cast, whipped down a Tofana slope at 50 m.p.h.; she wound up back on the sidelines with a torn knee ligament. In a sense, the accidents were inevitable. The traditional contests, with which the games began in ancient Greece, strain muscle and mind, but rarely endanger life. Only since...
...completely crippled. Having broken his left ankle just before the opening, he sprained the right one immediately after it. Despite poor notices, Manhattan's City Center was packed when the second-night curtain rang up and Welles was rolled out in a wheelchair, one foot encased in a plaster cast, the other swathed in bandages. At 40, and weighing 260 Ibs., the heavy-jowled "boy wonder'' no longer looked like a precocious cherub, but he quickly demonstrated that he had not lost his showmanship...