Word: cements
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...structure was thei exhibited by its manufacturer. Lifted high on a dark altar, in a tapestried chamber still as the Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn?exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...
...sway beneath the feet of business school men with their green bags, plodding wearily home from classes. All the illusion of a full moon, rising behind the Brighton Abattoir or whenever it does rise to shine on this new rainbow arch, will be shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk on: not as a Freshman promenade but as a Business School thoroughfare. The Chinese element which has argued for a pagoda-like approach, the Indian students who have hoped for pontoons, and the Westerners who felt that they could get along without any bridge...
...summoned Cincinnatus of Greece, ex-Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, once again came out of retirement in foreign climes to undertake a patriotic duty. He consented to act as Greek Ambassador to Yugo-Slavia for six months in order to cement friendly relations between the two countries. His term of office will begin after the signing of a Greco-Yugo-Slavian alliance, which will be effected probably...
...Maid Raisin Growers Association California Fruit Growers' Exchange California Prune and Apricot Growers Portland Cement Association Dairymen's League Cooperative Association Florida Citrus Exchange...
...become either missing or mutilated. Its been so long too--oh, almost three hundred and fifty years now--that things have just been drifting along in Greece. It may seem unsympathetic to make any strong statement of protest against the project, for the Greeks have the ambition and the cement, and they can probably do a pretty decent job of restoration, if they don't lose interest and start a war. But the main trouble is they haven't got the Elgin marbles, the Parthenon's most distinctive ornaments...