Word: trowel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proper archeologist is equipped for the most delicate digging and examinations with a small trowel, whisk broom, toothbrush, bellows and old fork-handy for cleaning out skulls. First the site is measured and mapped. Then the sod is stripped away and the soil is carefully peeled off, layer by layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits...
...Catholic liturgical music, expressed himself almost entirely in consonances. But 18th-Century Johann Sebastian Bach, a product of the more individualistic Protestant Reformation, used dissonances liberally, especially in his impassioned, emotional moments. And 19th-Century Richard Wagner, whose individualism bordered on egomania, laid dissonances on with a trowel...
...Nights in a Barroom" fall hardest where it should have shone brightest. The specialty numbers--especialty those of old-timer Vic Faust, a toothless Al Smith with a hangover--click beautifully. But the attempts of the rest of the cast to pile on the old-fashioned melodrama with a trowel fall pretty flat. They use restraint where hamming is called for; and they don't even give the villain-hissing audience a fighting chance to display its wares. A livelier paced direction, with more emphasis on the exists and entrances that give blood-and-thunder its special quality would have...
...opening campaign speech little Fiorello tossed away his prepared manuscript, grabbed off his horn-rimmed glasses and used them alternately as a cutlass, a rapier, a backscratcher, a wand, a scepter, a drumstick and a trowel. He touched his toes, imitated a football player's kickoff, spat on an imaginary apple and polished it on his sleeve. He told the audience that his extra work came out of him and not out of the city. He ridiculed critics who complain of his Washington visits: "I saw the city needed this. . . . The bankers wanted to charge...
...conceptions of plant disease and care. He helped to found Massachusett's system of tree wardens, went about the U.S. diagnosing tree ailments, usually at a glance, and advising communities how to preserve their leanness from gas, electricity, insects, fungi, etc. A good hand with chisel and trowel, Stone devised methods of repairing trees. His teachings stimulated a host of tree surgeons and researchers, who learned to treat trees as living things...