Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Expanding its plant at Cumberland, Md., Pittsburgh Plate Glass is setting up a "float process" that will produce high-quality plate by floating molten glass on a pool of molten tin. Since the process requires no expensive grinders, buffers or polishers, the company will be able to double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...
...Sailing Pavil- ion from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Club memberships are $10 and may be obtained from Darcy Dingle, director The fee includes classes for beginners and racers and limited guest privileges. Swiming tests are required. Ask for Mr. Dingle at the Harvard float, located on the left hand side of the pavilion
...just the cup of tea for a true intellectual out on the town for a little cerebration. But the tickling has always been strongest down where the libido lives, and however cool jazz may be, its rhythms and spirit are still sexual; the libido gets a chance to float around in the dark...
...content to let the soaring geometry speak for itself, but with churches, he admits with a grin, "we refine a little." One of his most beautiful is the chapel in Lomas de Cuernavaca, done with Architect Guillermo Rosell. It is a pure hyperbolic paraboloid whose slender edges seem to float free and whose roof slopes from each end down to a skylight. Guarded by a tapering cross, it stands upon a lonely hill, surging toward the sky-a modern version of the mighty Gothic reach...
...dash, Mel Patton once explained, is to "boom and float" - explode from the starting blocks, drive hard for 50 yds., then "settle down and go for the ride." Slender and wiry, the World's Fastest Human of the '40s rode to a 9.3-sec. 100 - a world record that stood unmolested for 13 years, until Villanova's Frank Budd clocked...