Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been dunned for back church dues by his senior warden, was a reply, in effect: "Dad, if your check is still good, you pay my dues and when the war is over I'll pay you back." Also in Dad's possession was a foot-square slab of grey stone, a fragment of the bombed House of Commons, a gift from Parliament...
...French soldiers snapped to attention. A band played the Marseillaise, God Save the King, the Star-Spangled Banner. Slowly three men mounted the steps to the 30-ft. granite statue on the avenue Pasteur in Algiers. They laid wreaths of roses, chrysanthemums, carnations and tropical flowers on the slab supporting Lanowsky's figure of the Unknown Soldier. They saluted. Then they went off to lunch...
...Morning, September 19 9.15--12.15 Anthropology S12 Peabody Mus. 22 Biology S2b Memorial Hall Chemistry SAb Mallinckrodt MB9 Chemistry S2b Mallinckrodt MB23 Chemistry S6b Mallinckrodt MB9 Economics S141b Sever 6 Engin. Sci. S6b Pierce 302 English S1b Harvard 5 English S5b Harvard 6 English S15b Sever 17 Fine Arts Slab Fogg Small Lect. Hall French SFb Harvard 2 French S7a Sever 17 Geography S1b New Lect. Hall German SDb Sever 1 German SFb Emerson 211 German S10 Emerson D Government S29b New Lect. Hall Greek SBb Sever 5 Greek SGb Sever 6 History S32b New Lect. Hall History S64b Memorial...
...first-rate controversy." This critical whack, laid on last week by New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, precipitated the loudest Manhattan art squabble since Frederick MacMonnies' famed statue of Civic Virtue ("the Fat Boy") was exiled to a suburban square. The mayor referred to a slab-limbed plaster aviator, titled Wings for Victory, by Sculptor Thomas Lo Medico (see cut). Winner of a $1,000 prize in an Artists for Victory Inc. competition, the aviator, in a 24-ft. copy, was to have towered over the Fifth Avenue plaza before Manhattan's Public Library. Gloomed Sculptor...
...hardest job in constructing homemade telescopes is grinding the mirrors. These must be accurate to within 1/400,000 inch, and amateur telescopists regard opticians-who grind spectacle lenses to within only 1/10,000 inch-as crude workmen. To make a mirror, two flat slabs of glass are rubbed together off center with fine abrasives in between. Slowly a concave parabolic surface is formed on one slab, which is then coated with silver. The work is all done by hand; it is not considered sporting to use a grinding machine unless it too is homemade. The average homemade telescope represents...