Word: slab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elsewhere in The Netherlands, Architect Breuer was finding tougher going. His design for a modern U.S. embassy on the linden-tree-shaded Lange Voorhout in The Hague had the conservative Hagenaars up in arms. The building's slab fagade, with its overall pattern and trapezoid-shaped windows topped with matching panels of polished grey granite, looked to one of them like "a sponge cake," and, worst of all, had a suspicious resemblance to Rotterdam's new Bijenkorf...
...curtail or even drop it. While miners would welcome that, they fear an end to stockpiling, which would increase imports and send prices down. Last week, before a meeting of the American Zinc Institute, Assistant Interior Secretary Felix Wormser said frankly that stockpiling, which last year scooped 15% of slab zinc output (an amount almost equaling 1956 imports) off an overloaded market, has met its goals and will end "in a matter of months." The only solution for the miners' troubles, said Robert Hendricks, vice president of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada Ltd., is to boost demand...
Somewhat nearer to Widener than to Boylston Hall squats a dragon, his squarish maw gaping in anger, or majesty, or perhaps in pain. On his broad back rests an erect ten-ton marble slab, inscribed with attractive Chinese figures. Fashioned in Tientsin, he was shipped to this country by Chinese alumni in China, to be presented on the second day of Harvard's Tercentenary celebration in September...
...words inscribed on one side of the erect slab bear humble tribute to Harvard from her Chinese alumni in China. John Harvard is held up as an example of the kind of men who realize education's role in building for the future of nations. Harvard, it says, is the ideal manifestation of such a man's efforts...
...burial on the arm of Charles Eliot Norton, also a future resident. From Indian Ridge, where Longfellow now slept as tranquilly as he did in his waking hours, we stumbled along Central Ave., to Cypress Ave., and then, trusting we were unobserved, skipped cross-country 'twixt stone and slab to the unforgettable Spruce...