Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Throughout the brief installation, which consisted of a prayer, the presenting of the insignia, and President Conant's acceptance speech, there was no sound besides the speaker's voice and the crackling fire in the hearth. After the 78th Psalm had been sung by the Choir, the assembly broke up, while deans and Overseers gave a hand in removing the chairs to facilitate an approach to the long tables along the west side of the room on which the University had provided punch, tea, and sandwiches." For a half hour, Conant remained, greeting wellwishers...
...fought the good fight against bad schools, bad prisons, bad laws and the bad byproducts of the Industrial Revolution. With Bernard Shaw, Johnson insists that this makes Dickens a social revolutionary. Lenin, for one, did not agree and once stomped out of a dramatization of The Cricket on the Hearth, because he could not stomach Dickens' "middleclass sentimentality." It is probably true to say, as other critics have, that Dickens had an alert social conscience; he knew what he was against, but he never knew quite what he was for-except the underdog...
...blast furnace, the fuse ignited a stack of oil-soaked railroad ties, which in turn set fire to a charge of coke and started the furnace. A few minutes later, Nancy's sister Carol, 5, touched a button which fired a rocket through a plug in an open hearth furnace already going, and 250 tons of flaming, molten steel poured into a massive ladle. Thus last week, less than two years after groundbreaking (TIME, March 12, 1951), U.S. Steel's $450 million Fairless Works in Morrisville, Pa., went into operation...
...Holland, all of which are increasing their corn crop, to save import dollars. MSA figured that the farmers could raise even more if they learned to harvest in the traditional U.S. style instead of lugging each ear home to be stripped at a husking bee around the family hearth...
...frank fresh-air fanatic, Chase inveighs against central heating. Once he quoted part of Whittier's Snowbound ("We sat the clean-winged hearth about"), and asked: "Will anybody ever write anything like that about a steam radiator?" Again: "I personally believe that colds are infectious and I am in greatest danger in overheated houses crowded with people. However, I am not deluding myself that I can sell this to the rest...