Word: veneered
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...fagade is of dull Portland stone and weathered hand-made tawny-brown bricks, each chosen with fond care and joined, as the Times said, with "a sympathetic mortar." Lest the 152-year-old Times lose some of its hoary atmosphere, a new rubber-floored proofreading room was paneled in veneer made from piles of the old Waterloo bridge...
...system is trying to plug the gap between courses. This is an inefficient and half-baked way of giving another course. Much more benefit can be derived from a tutorial system making an intensive study of problems springing from courses, than from a system which spreads a pitifully thin veneer of knowledge over the whole History fabric...
...compactly luxurious as the cabin of a small cruiser. A 14-footer may have three davenports which convert into beds, a stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum or rugs on the floor. All have running water, insulation, electric light, heat. Cost for factory-built models ranges from $400 to $1,200. The more expensive models this year are outselling the cheap ones three...
...under the present system is falling short of its mark, it is not because the division is doing too little, but rather because it is attempting too much. The department has taken the dogma, perhaps from President Lowell, that concentration in a particular field has as its object a veneer of knowledge covering the entire expanse of the chosen subject. As is inevitable in such a vaulting and all-inclusive attempt, the concentrator, having only his Sophomore and Junior years in which to study for his divisionals, skims over the surface from the dawn of history to the present...
...Stresa," remarked Benito Mussolini one day last week, pausing an instant as he dictated Fascist orders of the day. "Get Stresa ready for a conference on April 11. Veneer the railway station with marble. Repave the principal streets. Clean up everything-the usual precautions. And don't spend more than 2,000,000 lire...