Word: plasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...trolley directors went home. Sculptor Barnard returned to work. Ahead of him were eight more years of translating his plaster models into granite and marble. He is ready, if the city is not willing to accept his memorial, to tear down his own house for a site...
...arch, for the industry of Sculptor Barnard and for the artistic value of many of the individual figures stayed mum. None dared remind a man who has worked 15 years on one job that a 100-foot arch is not sculpture but architecture. The vast panels of plaster he has designed are white excrescences oozing from masonry. Despite their individual merit and the noble symbolism they represent, not one of the 53 figures has any structural connection with the arch of which it is a part...