Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Ralph Rackstraw hums a little. Babies hum at the breast, and mothers hum while rocking them. Children hum at play; workmen hum at work. No company is without its office hummer who strides the halls humming his favorite pop or Paganini. Pablo Casals hums while playing the cello. Why do humans hum? In the current Journal of Auditory Research, a psychiatrist offers a couple of answers...
Pack & Preserve. The dismantling took five months. Every part of the apse was measured, every stone numbered and painstakingly packed in boxes. At The Cloisters, the stones were treated with a secret preservative to protect them against the cold, rain and city smoke. In January 1959 workmen began laying the foundation stones, at first without mortar, to test their fit to the new site. After corrections for the contours of the old site and for the distortions caused by centuries of settling, the walls slowly rose, set this time in a thin layer of mortar. When they reached the high...
...Several workmen labored all afternoon on the roof of Widener Library and bored holes, at carefully measured ten foot intervals, into the ledge around the interior court. In these holes were inserted poles with strings dangling from the end. At the end of each string there is a nine inch gilt owl which sways menacingly in the wind. The pigeons have been fearless, however, and continue to walk and roost on the ledge with no thought of their own safety...
...fighting the surging tide to keep it poised over its eventual resting place atop an asphalted nylon mat that anchors the shifting sands of the sea's bottom. Precisely at the moment of the tide's turn, when the water was completely still, 25 workmen aboard Caisson 7 frantically twirled at the watercocks. The waters rumbled into the hollow insides of the caisson, and after four minutes it sank surely into place...
...estimated 38 square feet of plaster fell from the ceiling. One of the workmen who repaired the room yesterday said that that amount of plaster would have been "very, very heavy" and would probably have seriously injured anyone beneath...