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Londoners who viewed Photographer Irvine's cinema found the picture too indistinct to be convincing. Some were sure they were looking at nothing more than a large gnarled log floating on the lake. On a plaster cast of Hunter Wetherell's footprint the Natural History Museum in London reported: "We are unable to find any significant difference between these impressions and those made by a hippopotamus...
...cartoon strip, a panorama of civilization in the U. S. as seen through Communist eyes from the landing of the Pilgrims and the liquidation of the Indians to NRA and the farm strike. The New Workers' tenure of the garret being none too permanent, the metal lath and plaster panels of each fresco, weighing up to 350 lb., were made removable...
...number of historic incidents that Artist Rivera managed to crowd on his hard plaster panels was impressive. To be quickly identified were Dutch settlers purchasing Manhattan at the point of a matchlock; a slave trader lashing a black; the Boston Massacre with Crispus Attucks in the centre; Thomas Paine and the "Rights of Man"; the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson; the Whiskey Rebellion; the Annexation of Texas; gold in California; John Brown arming the slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy...
...depends upon that system, and by the timidly which abounds in an atmosphere of traditional conservatism, University Hall has seen fit to treat the tutorial system as altogether subordinate to the old order, to make it fill in the gaps, to reduce it to kind of an intellectual mustard plaster. Year after year, the president and the deans have obscured this subordination with fine phrases and high optimism. But concrete advances have been hesitant, almost apologetic. The fact of subordination remains, and when the time comes to eliminate or reduce budgetary items, the tutorial system springs to mind...
...interior of Wigglesworth Hall in the Yard several large cracks have developed in the walls, one of which is pictured in the accompanying illustration. Here the plaster about the shower has cracked, and is in such a condition as to be in imminent danger of falling from the walls. Similar cases have been found in the bathrooms of many of the Houses where not only the walls have cracked but the floors have swelled also, as a result of improper waterproofing underneath the showers. In the rooms beneath the bathrooms water has leaked through from the floor above causing much...