Word: stonework
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Connoisseurs know that in the lacelike stonework of this Chapel and in its cunningly carved oak chair stalls the English Gothic Style attained its richest and most intricate perfection. The resplendent scene was one to quicken blase hearts, as each Knight mounted to his carved niche, grasped his sword by the blade, and extended its upraised hilt toward the High Altar...
...Harvard Street side by side with the reporter, Jack was a blue-coated symbol of the declaration of Herodotus that "neither heat nor cold nor sun nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these carriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," which is emblazoned in the stonework of the New York Post Office. "This is fine work for keeping a man in shape," declared Jack. "I haven't missed a day yet," he added with Hibernian earnestness, "and I don't ever intend to miss...
...hegemone falls to the ground; and there can be no possible doubt that the combined proofs of the expedition will satisfy the most skeptical or most prejudiced minds. The chemists have left no stone untreated and have found that the deposits and corrosions of several centuries clearly differentiate the stonework of the monastery from the later structures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which were built around the venerable tower of the great mother-pile. Corroborative evidence, if it were necessary, can be produced from Cambridge, which was probably at that time an important centre of learning, though it suffered...
...great day of Portland cement did not set in until cheap structural steel became a commonplace. The reinforced concrete building then came in, as well as concrete roads, concrete canal locks and railroad abutments and many other forms of substitution for solid stonework. Without concrete no less than fabricated steel, the modern skyscraper could never have been built...