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Word: tiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution which would take the President of China out of the figurehead class (a Mr. Lin Sen is now President) and give him full powers. The implication was that Generalissimo Chiang will make himself President and move into the brand new $100,000 Chinese "White House" (yellow walls, blue tile roof) at Nanking which puppet President Lin has never ventured to occupy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang on Lid | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...Winthrop men played stellar ball during the first six innings of the tile, going into the last of the seventh with a comfortable lead, but the homer by Peter and errors on the part of the Puritans suddenly threw them out on the short end of the score. Norman Letarie, Winthrop's biggest swatter, chalked up another home run for himself in the seventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

Like all Chinese "palaces," it was a maze of sprawling, verandahed, one-story buildings built around open courtyards and roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Ruin's End | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...Orleans Levee Board of which Col. Shushan, good friend of Senator Huey Long, is president. In gratitude for his loyalty Senator Long permitted the new field to be named for Col. Shushan. The name of Shushan was graven and imprinted no less than 3,200 times in stone, metal, tile and bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Jinxed Races | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...President signed NRA codes for furniture; garages & parking; fireworks; excelsior; asphalt & mastic tile; waste manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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