Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nylon bearings. Advantages, claimed in a Du Pont patent: no lubrication required; less friction, vibration, heat; longer wear and ability to carry heavier loads than bearings made of bronze, brass, babbitt metal. In the past, bearings have been made of synthetic resins, but they had to be reinforced with fabric fillers, required water lubrication...
...Chicago. Some of the pioneer Chicago jazzmen whom reverent connoisseurs know as the "Austin High School Gang"-although few of them actually went there to school-assembled in their native city for the first time in many a year, to play in a minuscule Loop joint, the Brass Rail...
...them, the late, great Clarinetist Frank Teschmaker, taught Benny Goodman some stuff. Another, Tenor Saxophonist Bud Freeman, was one of many who later played in the Goodman band and now lead their own. Still another was husky, florid Trumpeter Jimmy MacPartland, who assembled the small band at the Brass Rail this week. Three of that group are men who began in the Austin High period: bespectacled Joe Sullivan, who learned his piano at the Chicago Conservatory; gaunt, elfin "Pee Wee" Russell, famed for his thin, jetting runs and husky growls on the clarinet; boyish-looking, elliptical-screwball-talking Eddie Condon...
...subway strike was perfectly digestible to Michael Quill, brass-mouthed boss of T.W.U. He promised a strike on July 1. And radical Mike Quill was backed by conservative C.I.O. leaders because they could see that, with Government spreading its jurisdiction over industry, trade unionism might eventually have to fight Civil Service for its life...
Proving that ordinary people can sometimes make monkeys out of brass hats, a Tennessee medical lieutenant and a National Guard artillery captain made a better anti-tank gun sight for $1.40 than Ordnance and artillery experts had made...