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Ohio's Sandstone: Once the Source of the World's Finest Grinding Stones
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In our small village of Crestline, Ohio, a friend once kept in front of his antique shop a foot-powered grinding machine made by the Richards Wilcox Manufacturing Co. of Aurora, Illinois. The origin and history of its stone had always fascinated me (Figures 1 and 2).
All the sidewalks in our village before urban renewal had been made of sandstone cut from the old John Bippus Quarry in Leesville, Ohio, about three miles west of Crestline (Figure 3). Located in the bluffs of the Sandusky...
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Tenacity still set in Stone
Chicago Sun-Times
; In 1974, Steve Stone was a decent pitcher for the Cubs. Thousands of people saw every game he pitched that year, except for the most important game, which only four people saw. Stone pitched a complete-game 1-0 shutout that day. Threw lots of curveballs, nipped the corners, made the ball hopscotch
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Glossary of stone terms.(Glossary)
Stone World
; A abrasive finish -- a flat non-reflective surface finish for marble. abutment -- a solid stone springer at the lowest point of an arch or vault. adhered -- veneer secured and supported through adhesion to an approved bonding material applied over an approved backing. agate -- a variegated variety
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Glossary of stone terms.(List)
Stone World
; A abrasive finish--a flat non-reflective surface finish for marble. abutment--a solid stone springer at the lowest point of an arch or vault. adhered--veneer secured and supported through adhesion to an approved bonding material applied over an approved backing. agate--a variegated variety of
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Glossary of stone terms.
Stone World
; A abrasive finish -- a flat non-reflective surface finish for marble. abutment -- a solid stone springer at the lowest point of an arch or vault. adhered -- veneer secured and supported through adhesion to an approved bonding material applied over an approved backing. agate -- a variegated variety
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Glossary of stone terms. (A-W).
Stone World
; A abrasive finish -- a flat non-reflective surface finish for marble. abutment -- a solid stone springer at the lowest point of an arch or vault. adhered -- veneer secured and supported through adhesion to an approved bonding material applied over an approved backing. agate -- a variegated variety
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Bruisers' Stone not shy of sounding off
Chicago Sun-Times
; Billy Stone is not your average 25-year-old. After all, how many people list "making animal noises" as a hobby? "I just get goofy sometimes," Stone said. "To have a good time, I imitate certain animals." Although Stone can do a turkey and a chicken, he's not a looney bird. "I just enjoy making
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Hard-wired Roger Stone is turning a life in the electrical industry into his own business.
Columbia Daily Tribune
; ... Stone had never met bombarded him with handshakes and introductions. "My pleasure," Stone said back to them. As the 15-minute news briefing continued, U.S. SBA Regional Administrator Sam Jones handed over the check. "We know that your type of business is not ...
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Understanding sealers for natural stone surfaces.(THE STONE SHOP.)
Solid Surface
; Does all natural stone need to be sealed? This is a question that not even the experts agree on. Some say that certain granites are so dense that sealing them is not necessary. Others say that all stone needs to be sealed regardless of its density and porosity. Because we are not all geologists and
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Ruth Stone: a gift from the universe.
The American Poetry Review
; I MET RUTH STONE MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS ago at Indiana University, in 1973, the year Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence appeared. The book anatomized the nervousness a young poet was supposed to feel when he found he'd borrowed or stolen from a poet-predecessor: William Blake's complexes about
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A stone unturned.(Graham Greene)(Robert Stone)
The Nation
; ... gument's validity. Greene's writing is all tied together by a running concern for a certain England at a certain time. His novels are maps for a journey through the moral, emotional and psychological terrain of a nation in triumph and decline at once--and then a nation ...
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