Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spring Lake Invitation tournament; for the eighth time in its nine-year history; beating foxy, aggressive Wayne Sabin (2-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3) in the final; after a three-hour struggle; at the Bathing & Tennis Club, Spring Lake, N.J. A racquet-wielding robot on clay, who has a new model forehand each spring and trades it in every fall, Parker has been defeated only once in eight clay-court tournaments this year...
...field's "blue ground" (same as the geological formations of some of South Africa's famed mines) covers 44 acres, extends at least 200 feet underground. Chief difficulty in operating it: the cost, at-U.S. wage rates, of washing the 14,500,000 lb. of clay and rock it takes to extract a single pound of diamonds. Since the machine tool industry uses diamonds (world's hardest mineral) for cutting, this difficulty would be unimportant if control of the world's diamond supply, now tightly held by a British monopoly, should ever pass into Nazi...
Coney Island was not always the garish proletarian mecca it is today. Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Sam Houston, other aristocrats disported themselves on its then remote plage. Walt Whitman too was crazy about it: "The long bare unfrequented shore ... I had all to myself . . . where I loved after bathing to race up and down...
...your recent account (TIME, June 9) of the doings of the scholarly Institute for Propaganda Analysis, which was founded on the ivory tower principle of pure objectivity, you reported that the director, Dr. Clyde R. Miller, complained because his co-workers proved to be men of clay. "Everyone wants the other fellow's propaganda analyzed, but not his own," Dr. Miller is reported to have said. Then you added this apparently startling revelation: "Chief thing the row seemed to prove: every man is a propagandist, whether he knows...
Farina, the spindly, pigtailed pickaninny of the old "Our Gang" comedies, turned up in the Army as husky, close-cropped Private Alan Clay Hoskins. >> John Roosevelt, youngest of the President's sons, went on active duty with the Naval Reserve, joined Brothers James, Franklin Jr. and Elliott, in uniform. >> The fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Jaipur, 29, joined the British forces in Egypt as a captain. At home he has a private army of his own, rides in a solid gold-and-silver coach. >> Mrs. Otto H. Kahn made herself useful in Cairo's British canteens. >> Rex Beach...