Word: tiling
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...blooded Mr. Curtis used to be a jockey himself. He has an eye for fast horses the way some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz, Yellow Cab tycoon. Mr. Hertz has a twin-motored Sikorsky in which the Vice President was tempted to take...
...light reflected from any colored object into its spectroscopic lines. A chart of those lines is photographed and the picture may be sent by wire or wireless anywhere. Useful can this device be for recording the exact tints of textiles, oils, soap, cheese, lard, flour, butter, chocolate, glass, automobiles, tile, brick, roofing material, carpets, rope, hardware, paper, leather, cement, linoleum, cosmetics...
...unless supported by government crutches. Always it is a hazardous gamble, depending on the turn of a tide or a rainfall in Russia. Scientists would make the farmer see his farm not as a source of food alone but as a vast storehouse of potential petroleum, paint, tiles, silk, synthetic lumber. Let him turn oat chaff, cottonseed hulls, corncobs into money to buy Fords, phonographs. New Products. Professor Orland Russell Sweeney, of Iowa State College, called the Corn Belt a great sponge soaking up the energy of the sun. Nowhere else in the white man's world is there...
...Real Estate Boards. Marion Stump, chosen to sing the praises of Indianapolis corner lots and bungalows, hoped to win the bitterly-fought "home town talk" contest. Hoosiers, among others, learned that the woman in the family buys the house, after considering these advantages: accessibility to golf courses, colored tile bathrooms, low window sills...
Came British Jail Superintendent Major Dhondy, pompous. Three times, in the name of the British Raj, he called on the revolted prisoners to surrender. Their reply was a tile, deftly hurled, which bruised painfully Jail Superintendent Major Dhondy. "Fire!" he commanded, and before the machine gun ceased to rattle, 16 prisoners had been wounded. Cowed, the desperate nose-nippers surrendered...