Word: slab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scale. Commissioned in 1916 to build the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, he produced one of the marvels of modern construction. A vast, low building on a symmetrical plan, it was Wright's first ambitious use of the cantilever principle, which allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock...
...late years has turned to playwriting. Three of his plays are currently on the London stage. Last week one of them,*another attempt to dramatize that old riddle, time, failed to impress Manhattan audiences either as drama or as metaphysics. Time and the Conways was like a heavy slab of Yorkshire pudding with no roast beef...
...VIII, had been out for an evening stroll alone. Queen Louise (a Swedish-Norwegian princess) was at home in Copenhagen. A heart attack overtook the old gentleman (he was 68). Passersby helped him to a hospital, none knowing who he was. For hours he lay on a public mortuary slab before identification was made...
Dave Shean, regular outfielder, who in a surprise move toes the slab for the Crimson, allowed the Bruins only eight hits in his first attempt at pitching in two years. Shean's success yesterday partially lightens Coach Fred Mitchell's hurling problems...
With big Ed Ingalls, who has pitched the only games credited to the Crimson victory column this season, slated to too the slab today, the Varsity is expected to give the visiting Metropolitan League Leaders a stiff battle...