Word: hones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American living in Italy, I wish to express my gratitude and admiration for Mrs. Luce . . . We know of these frightful facts of juvenile delinquency in our country, but I seriously doubt the patriotism of men, who, in their hone of gaining a prize, would show a film exposing, even facts, which must lower the" respect and admiration for our country in foreign lands...
Bell Labs, looking ahead, is experimenting with them for charging the storage batteries of rural tele 'hone lines. Frames of them set on poles at Americus, Ga. are performing well, but Bell is worried about the effects of indifferent birds and stone-throwing boys...
...over. San Antonio's Chamber of Commerce sent Popejoy, for forwarding to Bagdad, an absolutely original Bowie knife (it said so right on the blade, which was "made in Germany"). At week's end, Author Thorp himself came to the rescue, ordered a skilled cutlery man to hone out a genuine imitation for His Majesty...
Died. Evie Hone, 62, famed Irish-born stained-glass artist, whose dazzling, angularly primitive windows glitter in some 20 churches all over the British Isles (among the most widely praised: her Crucifixion window in Eton's restored 15th-century chapel-TIME, June 30, 1952); of a heart attack; in Dublin...
...Ford Motor Co. plant in Cleveland, where rough engine-block castings are fed into one bank of 26 linked machines which hone, broach, drill and prepare the blocks for assembly, all automatically. Then the machines feed the blocks out the other end on conveyor belts, where still other machines and workers install pistons and carburetors. Formerly 117 machinists needed 4^ hours to finish an engine block; now with 41 men, the machines do the work in less than three hours...