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Death sped unseen across a white-walled courtyard, passed up a marble stair, and seemed to pause, irresolute, last week, in the bedchamber of Rumania's greatest man. The room, warmed by a great tile stove, was cozy; and Prime Minister Jon Bratiano, 63, clung hard to warmth and life. He could not speak, for inflammation brought on by blood infection, had gagged his throat; but with a steady hand he wrote to the physicians who bent over him: "Do not be impatient. I shall make a good fight...
...Mesa, Ariz., on land reclaimed from the desert by Mormons, is a huge terra cotta temple. Its foundations are 12 feet thick, its walls 4 feet thick; its area 184 by 128 feet. Within is a massive baptismal font of bronze and tile, resting on the backs twelve life-size oxen made of fired clay, altars and great rooms decorated with paintings, gold and marble...
...tile, of course, embraces the Chinese problem, and the ramifications of industrial development, treaties, and troubles which featured the situation during that period, and their relation to the acute difficulties which are necessitating the present concentration of thousands of American marines in Shanghai...
...toward a permanent system of this kind on a larger scale. Thus it is obvious that those who wish to see a central eating place, run by the University, where food can be obtained at sane prices and eaten in congenial surroundings in a fashion far removed from the tile armed manner so prevalent now will be doing themselves and those who follow them at Harvard a great service by trying out the Union-plan...
That gypsum is used for the base coat for plaster, because it is adhesive, strong, and resistant to abuse; for tile in building partitions which need not bear weights, because it resists fire and water; for plasterboard or wallboard (pre-shaped at the mills) because it resists fire, does not warp and witstands abuse and cold and insulates against temperature changes...