Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produced in a given time. Speedy, timed, mass production is what makes motor cars cheap and plentiful in the U. S. So the battle in Detroit was of as much interest to automobile buyers as to the motormakers, their 380,000 workers, and the furnishers of steel, rubber, plate glass, etc., etc., who pine or prosper with their biggest consumer...
Sparking the backfield, McNicol and Loring should share the spotlight Saturday. Both have proved themselves competent runners with McNicol looking very good on fakes and as a pass-flinger. It looks as if either Glass or Camp might develop into an adequate blocking back, but for the present, Goldthwaite is quite secure in the berth he has held since the opening game...
...industry which in a year produces 2,500,000 motor cars and could produce about 6,000,000, which directly or indirectly employs 6,380,000 workmen, which in a year uses 176,000 tons of iron, 329,900 tons of rubber; 63,000,000 square feet of plate glass; 21,156,000 feet of leather upholstery; 191,700 tons of lead; 12,600,000 pounds of nickel; 619,434 bales of cotton; 100,000,000 sq. ft. of hardwood; 19,718,000,000 gallons of gasoline; 16,000,000 Ibs. of wool; 6,300,000 lbs. of mohair...
...said Miss Duncan, she and a man named Douglas Miller were lunching together (Miss Duncan was traveling with her aunt) aboard the Norwegian freighter Ronda, standing up through the North Sea en route from Antwerp to Hoboken. Suddenly the ship "shuddered awfully." Glass tinkled, Miss Duncan remembered, and vases broke...
Pain and Tumors. About half of the Institute's 3,200 annual patients require operations for brain or spinal-cord tumors. A great proportion of these operations are performed by strong, sociable Dr. Byron Stookey in the green-tiled operating room domed with a glass observers' balcony. Sleepy-green nonreflecting arc lamps designed by Dr. Stookey spotlight the site of operation, but cast no shadow, generate little heat. Dr. Stookey performs scores of operations for the relief of "intractable" pain. Victims of agonizing, incurable cancer, for example, can usually have their last days made easy by a simple...