Word: plastering
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...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...
...Rogers, arranged and mounted by Art Dealer Felix Wildenstein of the Club's art committee. After three days the show was dismantled while newspaper critics clamored for a fuller public exhibition of the same works, hoped that it might tour the country. Fifty years ago a painted brown plaster Rogers Group was a standard fitting in the parlors of U. S. Respectability. With the colored lithographs of Currier & Ives and wax flowers under glass bells, they marked the sunrise of artistic appreciation in the country. The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home...
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...
...impossible to adapt the acoustic properties to both music and speaking, chose to adapt them to speaking, and hardly left the University a chance to say no. In order to prevent the reverberation and echoes of the speaker's voice, the ceiling of the nave was finished in rough plaster, and a heavy carpet, lying on a three-quarter inch hemp padding, was laid down in the aisles...
Even while the guns were being unlimbered the crowd could not believe the boys were in earnest. They did when plaster spurted from the walls of buildings and bullets buzzed in their ears. Eight people were killed instantly. A little child had his jaw blown away. A young man died in his mother's arms. One proud father went out to the park to see his son march with the machine gun company. He fell with a bullet through the lungs. It was different from shooting on the range. A white-faced machine gunner dropped his piece, fled screaming...