Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrangement available to but seldom used by other industrialists). Says Pabco's Lowe: ". . . We're willing to hand it to the unions. . . [they] not only increased efficiency in our plant, but they are helping to sell our products. That's what we got out of playing ball with them...
...lady named Sarah A. L. Hardinge. In the 70 years which followed, she and her descendants took out 174 other patents. Mrs. Hardinge's smart son, Hal, for instance, invented a machine which pulverizes ore by feeding it into a whirling drum containing a lot of little steel balls. Many a fortune has been made with it. It became generally known last week that Mrs. Hardinge's smart grandson had added a smart refinement to his father's famed "ball process" of ore reduction...
...Hardinge's son, Harlowe, vice president and general manager of Hardinge Co. of York, Pa., studied his father's "ball mill" in operation. There was a certain rate of feeding in ore at which it performed most efficiently, and that rate could be estimated by sound. When the feed was too slow, the noisy clatter of the mill increased; when too fast, the sound was muffled. Workmen were trained to listen for these changes in sound and manipulate the ore flow accordingly. But Harlowe Hardinge noticed that the listeners' judgment was likely to vary as much...
...Crimson, however, it must be said that they turned in one of their poorest games of the season Wednesday night in the Columbia tilt. The Lions had things pretty much their own way for three-quarters of the contest, and the Feslermen are hoping to stay in the ball game a lot longer this time...
...sport has each year followed this policy of submerging a man for the sake of a few points. Such a situation is much different from that of a football team, for instance, where one man does the dirty work of blocking and tackling to the exclusion of any spectacular ball-carrying on his part in order to make the team more powerful as a unit. But the blocking back and the unnoticed lineman are expected to do their jobs well, and the tasks they have to handle are just as important in football as that of the pass-catching...