Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primary election day last week the sun shone April-fresh on Philadelphia-clear and mild on the bright brass knockers and white Georgian lintels, on the upthrust fingers of factory chimneys above the staring ranks of grimy windows, on the ranked shabbiness of the miles of identical little houses, on the grey enormity of City Hall...
...sued P. G. & E. on behalf of the city for $75,000,000-about what P. G. & E. has grossed from Hetch Hetchy power in 15 years. Newspapers lined up. Said the Scripps-Howard News, long in favor of public ownership, "We've got to get down to brass tacks now." Mourned the Ickes-hating Chronicle: "A hundred thousand horses . . . condemned...
...Symphony Orchestra (Decca Little Symphony, David Mendoza conducting; Decca: 22 sides, with explanatory pamphlets). Four albums of pieces in which the members of the string, woodwind, brass and percussion families are easily identifiable...
...store, "grease boy" in a bakery, sleeping car conductor on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. In the R. O. T. C., he was such a dead-shot with a rifle that he was put on as an act in an R. O. T. C. circus, where he shot the brass buttons off a fellow soldier's uniform. Lean and hungry-looking, too big for his clothes, mature beyond his years, Red Stassen confided to friends that some day he would be Governor...
...Denver, Reginald Scott Dean of the U. S. Bureau of Mines held up pieces of steel and brass, dropped them on the floor. They clanged. Mr. Dean then dropped a piece of another metal. There was a faint thump. This "noiseless" metal, as strong and elastic as mild steel, is a heat-treated alloy of copper and manganese. "This," said Metallurgist Dean, "opens up many new possibilities-chatterless spring suspensions, noiseless gears, a muffler for a whole host of bothersome industrial sounds...