Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joined the University of Chicago staff in 1927. Thin, slope-shouldered and bearded, he resembled the popular idea of a scientist, was noted for boundless energy and painstaking preciseness in his work. He it was who discovered and succeeded in bringing to Chicago one of the magnificent, 40-ton stone bulls of King Sargon...
...construction foreman explained yesterday that mortar and dust must be kept off the stone and this is done by scrubbing with brushes, water, and diluted acid. "We've got to turn the building over in good shape," he said. "After that it can just age naturally...
...Bullfinch and Abbot, architects for the new Littauer School of Public Administration, besides having a remarkably metrical name, are careful workmen. For weeks as the great gray structure reared itself, members of the Philips Brooks House staff across the street wondered why battalions of men periodically scrubbed all its stone surface...
Free School Lane. The Cavendish Laboratory came to birth in 1870 when the Seventh Duke of Devonshire (whose family name was Cavendish) gave Cambridge $31,500 to start a physics department. First building was a three-story, L-shaped affair which is still standing, though its once-white stone is now black with age. First director was James Clerk Maxwell, a Scotsman who as a schoolboy wore lace frill collars, a tunic and square-toed shoes, was considered peculiar by his mates. They were quite right. When he was hardly past 30, Maxwell invented electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves...
Traditionalist Edward Koch and Modernist Edward D. Stone split the honors in their designs for the Ramsey family of Atlanta (income $2,000 to $3,000), Mr. Koch providing a house with charm and Mr. Stone venturing one with imagination...