Word: layerings
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...oval of the new track on Soldiers Field. The ground has already been opened and pipes laid for drainage, but cinders are scarce at present in Cambridge and the plans cannot be carried out till more of these are secured to make a thick enough foundation for the top layer of clay. If things go as expected the courts will be completed in time for use this coming spring...
...seen fit to treat with contumely and disrespect. Nevertheless it reminds one, vaguely enough perhaps, of the little girl in the nursery rhyme, who when she was good was very, very good, and when she was had was--punk. It runs in streaks, like bacon or barber poles or layer cakes...
These improvements are peculiarly expensive due to the nature of the ground. It will be necessary to lay draining tile in several feet of cinders surmounted by a heavy layer of dirt and clay before the ground will be in shape...
...Raffalovich has happily preserved his artistic innocence against the brittle formula of the American short-story. Power he has, and fine detachment, and skill. There the story is, layer within layer,--all distinct and complete. The peasants, the bureaucracy, the poet, the dullard, the maniac, the woman are almost ocularly visible, lightened a bit specially by the irony of title and touch, but real as they must be in their local habitation. "Patriots' All" is the best story I have read in any magazine in months...
...unsympathetic your roommate appears when he sees the bargain! Yet sure enough, to smoke the third layer you must wear a gas mask, while the tailor explains that you have just enough cloth for a nice vest...