Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amazing as it sounds," continued the Canon, "the foundations of St. Pauls [which towers to a height of 365 ft.] are only four and a half feet deep. Beneath the cathedral there is only six feet of earth and then a bed of wet sand twenty feet deep. Springs pass under the cathedral from the northeast to the southwest and keep the sand...
...must have wet sand!" cried Canon Alexander fervently. "We must have wet sand...
...explained that the 99-year leases on several buildings near the cathedral are about to expire. If they are replaced by modern steel structures, the deep foundations necessary will drain the springs now flowing under St. Paul's, cause its wet sand foundation to dry out, to shrink...
Like ants emerging from a wrecked sand hill, Chicago citizens twisted and wriggled themselves out of their white entombment, proclaimed their plight to the world. Street traffic stalled completely, until 20,000 shovelers dug narrow channels through the drifts. Schools all closed when attendance dropped to 20%. The snow even blanketed crime: not one case was docketed in Morals Court during the blizzard; only six robberies were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars...
...hitherto supposed to be an element is really a combination of two substances called by him carolinium after the State of North Carolina and Berzelium after Berzelius a Swedish chemist who discovered thorium nearly a century ago. These new elements were first found by Prof. Baskerville in the monazite sand of North Carolina...