Word: slabbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought that the pulp could be made into paper but insulating board soon promised a better use. Backed by a group of Wisconsin lumbermen, Inventor Mason began to experiment with methods of forming and pressing his pulp. Once when he went to lunch he left a wet slab on a hot press, hurried back, when he remembered, to remove it. Meantime a cranky steam valve had permitted the press to grow hotter and heavier with the result that Inventor Mason found, instead of a fibrous board, a dense, grainless, rigid sheet of material, which, in its present refined form...
...student prospectors. Because they can't even find the old 30-foot brick well upon which the pump is to take up its stand. There are no old charts available, and so they can only go by photographs and by the knowledge that the concrete slab covering the old well is four feet below grass-level. Hours of poking with a crow-bar have failed to reveal any concrete slab...
With Dick Walsh slated to toe the slab, the Crimson Varsity nine steps into its second home game this afternoon as a formidable menace to the Boston University invaders...
...artist's desire of representing an ideal knight. The serene, dignified features of the effigy, majestically draped folds of the robe, and the time-scarred yet well preserved surface of the wood lends an atmosphere of permanence to this old statue which has reclined so calmly on its slab for over five centuries...
Sirs: Right "slab dab" on the first page of TIME, Jan. 27, you ask the question, as to where the late "Teddy Roosevelt" would have stood on the "New Deal" well I am quite sure that he would stand just where, The President is standing, or something so near like it, that no one could tell them apart...