Word: veneered
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...plane represented a personal victory. Ward and associates in the wood airplane business had long contended that veneers stuck together with plastic glues could be fashioned into flying machines as big as houses, if necessary. In wooden-wing planes the cautious Army had contented itself with fleets of Ward's little primary trainers. Now the Army has asked Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. to make big, wood-veneer, twin-engine planes for bomber-crew training-as fast, as maneuverable as many twin-engine bombers on the war fronts. They will be complete, with bombs in their belly bays and guns...
...John's is built in the old, enduring style of its medieval prototypes. Its walls and piers rose block by block of solid granite, whereas many Gothic-seeming churches built in recent years have only a veneer of stone on a steel skeleton. Only steel in St. John's is in the roof beams above the vault, where the Gothic churches had wooden beams. Another old-fashioned feature: it has been built, unit after unit, only when the money was on hand. "We don't owe a penny," said proud Bishop Manning last week...
...promising U.S. military aid to Thailand. Fact is that Grant turned in his resignation as a matter of form when President Roosevelt's second term ended, was both surprised and hot under the collar when he heard it had been accepted. He got so hot that his diplomatic veneer peeled clean off, and he cabled home to Alabama that he had been "railroaded" and would have plenty to say on his return...
...soldier out of you Johnny. They certainly aren't making one of me. But it isn't as though it were 1917. I know you won't be sent abroad. It's cheering to hear people like President MacCracken say that the war must be stripped of its moral veneer, that no one should urge us to kill and be killed in the name of Christianity...
...down at the practice field in the afternoons that if the Crimson Juniors can flash their weekday form on Saturdays, they will give the major opponents on their schedule all they can handle. Signal drills go along at a merry clip, with the squad beginning to acquire that fine veneer of polish and precision for which Harlow elevens are famous...