Word: asphaltic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sinclair use the process royalty-free, but since the inventor holds the patent, he may also sell it to anybody else. The news was hardly out before scores of ideas began flooding Sinclair's Manhattan offices. An inventor in Plymouth, Wis. phoned in his idea to use asphalt in making metal molds. Another inventor in Chicago phoned in his scheme for a new use of oil in the ceramics industry. Some sounded promising, others did not. All will get careful attention. Said Spencer: "You can't afford to ignore the crackpot. His work may turn...
...best director, the National Board named Scripter-Director John Huston (for MGM's The Asphalt Jungle), and as best actor, Alec Guinness (for his eight-ply role in the British Kind Hearts and Coronets). The best foreign movie, according to the board, was The Titan, a Swiss-photographed art film, re-edited by craftsmen in the U.S., starring the works of Michelangelo. The New York Critics gave the foreign-film laurels to the Pagnol-Renoir-Rossellini omnibus Ways of Love...
...back of the 7th Avenue South branch of the New York Public Library, on the western margin of Greenwich Village, is a large area covered with asphalt, suphemistically called Hudson Park. It has a softball field in one corner and a drinking fountain in the other. It is a good place to play ball...
...difference in the 480 undergraduates who have already registered automobiles and the 116 who have reserved spaces at the new, asphalt, Western Avenue lot is that many are commuters, but the larger group consists of student who have made what one official termed, "more expensive, and generally inferior, arrangements...
When Curli flourished his flag at the start, 39 speed-happy cyclists roared off around the treacherous four-mile asphalt course. Soon, as expected, the race settled down to a duel between Italy's Umberto Masetti, 23, riding a Gilera, and Britain's Geoffrey Duke, 27, on his Norton. For the world title, Masetti held a slim lead, 22 points to 19, based on six previous races this summer (eight points for first, six for second, four for third, etc.). In the final at Monza, all Masetti needed to clinch the 1950 title was to finish no worse...