Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremont -- "Beau Geste" -- 8.15 o'clock. Blood, and sand...
Curling Atlantic waves swept in one morning last week over the long sand dunes on the sea coast just above Bordeaux. Occasionally a wave burst over the sea wall, spattered with tingling droplets an old man who sat hunched upon a bench, staring seaward. Grey skies shrouded the 85th birthday of Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau...
...Auburn and Dunster Streets. The gentlemen of 1930 were shocked yesterday to find their sole, sound, secure amusement gone--one shadow of this shadow world gone hence. The Yard Cop who joined blue coated friends of the local gendarme gendre in watching wistfully the "little grains of sand" rise to their climax, descend is now a pessimist. The shovel has gone...
...chemistry laboratory. The first shaft was driven to a depth of 23 feet and for two-thirds of the distance, a stratum of heavy gravel was encountered, admirably suited for a foundation. During the last seven feet, water was struck in a layer of very fine sand and a pump was necessary to keep the shaft...
...other test pit gives indications of resulting in the same way as the first, with a layer of gravel occupying the first 14 feet. The foreman of the digging operations expressed himself as well satisfied with the straba revealed by the shafts. The fine sand at the bottom will form a good base for the concrete foundations of the laboratory, although it will necessitate the presence of several pumps during the early phases of the construction work...