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...close-grained rock with no visible layering) "to build facades which were largely dependent on . . . clean surface texture." In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the architects rushed up so many new Oxford colleges that the stone was often used "unseasoned" and without regard for the lie of the strata in the quarry. The result: "Within a few decades the poor quality freestones began to blister, flake, and fall away . . . Whole buildings fell into a premature and degraded...
...always had an extraordinary interest in politics. The main trouble with politics is that people in all strata of life have used public officials as their errand boys and office clerks. Another trouble lies in the huge income that a man must have to attain public office." The only way a candidate can get around this, he contends, is to get the backing of some potent, good-government group like the C.C.A...
...Where the Home Front is Soft," for instance, "The Freeman" tells us that our weak point "is close to the top of American society. It consists of non-Communist and even anti-Communist liberals, mostly middle and upper class business and professional people. . .the same strata in which Benedict Arnold moved so freely during the American Revolution." In the February 12 issue, one writer defines liberalism as "a potpourri of indiscriminant do-goodism trending into statism and blending indistinguishably into treason." In a later issue an article titled "The Red Mole" states that there is no non-Communist Left, "just...
...earlier expeditions had attacked the north slope, which lies in Tibet. Houston's group decided to investigate the unexplored south slope, which lies in friendly and comparatively accessible Nepal. From a distance, the south side of the mountain looked considerably more favorable for climbing. The slope of the strata looked gentler, and there was a promising formation something like huge stairs. Even more important was the fact that the southern side of the mountain gets more sunshine than the northern side, and therefore should not be as cold...
During the era of President Eliot there were three distinct social strata: the poorer students who lived in Cambridge's numerous "boarding houses", the middle class students who lived in the more expensive Yard dormitories, and the "Gold Coasters" who lived in the privately owned Westmorely Court, Randolph Hall, Apley Court, Claverly, and Dudley...