Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to steer his miners' votes. Not many had followed his wrathful advice to vote against Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944. After his tirade against Harry Truman, newsmen polled many of the delegates, found that about half would vote for Truman.* Next day a rumble of opposition broke out on the convention floor over a resolution which indirectly endorsed Tom Dewey (it said that Governor Dewey had never said anything bad about the U.M.W.). The resolution passed, but the mild resentment caused the geyser to erupt again. Lewis steamily trumpeted: "If there is any man who wants...
Universal & Permanent. Eli Whitney, an 18th Century Massachusetts Yankee, went broke after his cotton gin invention was widely pirated, and turned to making muskets. He got the idea of interchangeable parts. Before Whitney, each part of each factory product was different from its fellow on another product, even from the same shop. But every Whitney trigger fitted every Whitney gun. This principle of interchangeable parts became the basis of modern industry...
...pianist," Paderewski told him. "You have such beautiful hair." In time, Harold Bauer, who had started as a violinist, did become a pianist, certain that he had chosen the most glamorous occupation in the world. He was one of the shiniest stars of the Hofmann-Schnabel generation, which broke from the grand, pernicious influence of Liszt with its dazzling displays of pianistic fireworks. Bauer found that the life was not all bows and bravos. In an amiable, rambling autobiography (Harold Bauer: His Book; Norton, $3.75), the 75-year-old pianist tells what it was like...
Nevertheless, he could not prevent the Council from discussing the issue. When newsmen asked Vishinsky what he would do, he grinned and said: "Let us not worry. Everything will be clear in its own time." During one of Vishinsky's tirades, the radiophone translation system broke down. While Vishinsky sputtered in Russian, shrill sounds filled the receivers. Delegates frantically waved their arms. In the face of a laughing audience, Vishinsky finally demanded that his statement be postponed "until in this room, science and technique take the place they deserve...
...exciting team to watch . . . looks deadpan. But it hustles." Southworth had kept them hustling, even after they had cinched the pennant, so as not to lose their fighting edge. Last week, hustling in a game with Brooklyn that didn't matter, hard-hitting Outfielder Jeff Heath broke his ankle sliding into home plate, and was lost to the series...