Word: veneered
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...absence of great physical change, however, the Union was losing its status in the social scene. As might have been expected, the Union's veneer of College unity cracked under the influence of more attractive and exclusive organizations--it was becoming a club for those who had no club. True, organizations meeting within its walls kept the building occupied and officers of "The House of Fellowship" maintained undergraduate prestige, but by 1908 dues-paying membership had declined to less than two thousand...
...acquitted of the assault charge, but Yolaine's separation suit dragged on for six months, in three courts (sighed Sol: "I thought, how stupid. Here we are educated people. Well, at least we have a veneer"). Meanwhile, to keep up the rent payments, Yolaine Randall took a modeling job (sneered Sol: "All she can model is coats. Have you seen her legs? They're horrible"). Meanwhile, Sol got a job as cashier at the Brass Rail restaurant...
...Brick Veneer. To get around the disadvantages of conventional bricks, which are heavy, costly to transport, and cannot be laid easily in cold weather, Chicago's Ludowici-Celadon Co. has developed Nail-On, a hard clay brick ¾ in. thick. It can be nailed to a wall through a lip protruding along its top edge; the bottom edge of the next brick overlaps the lip to form a neat joint. Mortar can be applied whenever builder and weather are ready...
...race would have become extinct long ago through self-torture." ¶"The material world is a fiction; but every other world is a nightmare." ¶ "I think that art, etc., has a better soil in the ferocious 100% America than in the Intelligentsia of New York. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc., that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands." ¶"I have just finished Faulkner's Sanctuary, and I think I have understood all the pornographic part, corn cob, etc ... I found myself also absorbed in the story...
...parking garage need not be an unsightly concrete lump, Clapp emphasized. At relatively little extra cost, he said, a veneer can be affixed to the building which will give it character and beauty. He estimated the cost of such a garage at anywhere from $2,500 to $3,000 per car space. A garage above the car barn would be roughly $200 more per space because of the suspension problem, Clapp added...