Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn early one Sunday morning to witness a feat of alchemy. A chemical company which Senator Hastings partly owned with Publisher Paul Block thought it had a way to manufacture gold out of baser metal. The alchemy did not work, but the company was happily discovered to have a tile which just suited the requirements of the Board of Transportation for use in the city's subways...
...bell under the tower. However, the bell-rope seems not to be attached to any bell, but rather to the hair of a demon perched on the summit of the tower. A cowled personage is seated beside the demon on the roof holding what may be a tile in his hands, while over his shoulder appears a cutting hammer, the stock implement of the mediaeval mason. The connection of this scene to the others is rather obscure, but it must be remembered that no elaborate designs or plans were drawn for the detail of the mediaeval building: each sculpture...
Three weeks ago an unknown German plane droned in the still air above Rome showering anti-Fascist leaflets on the red tile roofs. Blue-helmeted Roman police and furious Fascists formed themselves instantly into a corps of gleaners and rushed about garnering as the leaflets fell, but the snow of propaganda was too heavy for them; thousands fell into the hands of citizens. Out at Rome's airport mechanics rushed from store rooms with loaded machine gun belts. Pursuit planes took off. The mysterious plane disappeared, has not been seen since...
...first time since the Germanic Museum has been open to the public, the large tile tank in the northern court of the building will be filled, and provided with fauna and flora in the form of large, "pond-size" goldfish, and Japanese water-lilies. The announcement, which was made yesterday, indicated that the operation would be completed within the week. The lilies and a dozen fish have been ordered through the University Maintenance Department from a New England conservatory, while an anonymous donor has given four additional goldfish. The latter are peculiar in that they must be given a private...
...with shelves for about 8000 volumes for the use of research students. (The Tutorial library will remain in the Jefferson Laboratory.) The conference room and library rooms of the new building are artistically panelled in oak, and will be appropriately furnished. The general hallways and professors' offices have rubber tile flooring, celotex acoustic ceilings, and plastered walls painted. The office furniture comprises metal desks and tables, aluminum chairs, and oak or metal bookcases and filing cases. The laboratory rooms have painted concrete floors and ceilings and painted tile walls. Furniture for laboratories consists of oak tables and chairs and metal...