Word: melt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms went up in approval as they cried "Freiheit!" in a mighty roar. Neumann rode on the crowd's shoulders as he tightly clasped the typewritten sheets of his memorandum in one arm and a bouquet of red roses in the other. Slowly the crowd began to melt back into the ruins from which it had come. Loudspeakers blared Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser...
...Henry Bessemer toyed with the notion, other inventors dreamed of it; last week it became a reality. In Beaver Falls, Pa., steelworkers poured molten metal into a mold, watched the melt slowly make its way down a 75-ft. tower, to be cooled, cut and ejected as a steel billet ready to be shipped. Commercial steel had at last been cast from molten to semi-finished state in one continuous process...
...flamboyance; and he may fall to the floor once too often. But such excesses are rare and disarming; mostly, insofar as he errs, he errs nobly on the side of restraint. He pours out the marvelous liquids of the first soliloquy (0! that this too, too solid flesh would melt) very tenderly and melodiously, but with little of the anguish which lies half-awakened beneath the bitter mildness. To be, or not to be is spoken in a stoical quietude and levelness, but the subtler possibilities are not very clearly realized in those definitive, eroded lines; and with that insufficient...
Only Chrysler was out of step. It furnished a prime example of how the profits of the industry-with a break-even point well above that of prewar-might melt if production had to be trimmed. Chrysler, nipped by shortages and wildcat strikes, reported a gross of $336,519,790, up only 6% from last year's first quarter. But its net profit was down 30% to $14.9 million...
...guard Walt McCurdy, whose eligibility ruling came through only Monday, hit on six clean, crisp sets from way out. He also had three fouls for a total of 15 points. John Rockwell, who entered the game late in the second half, scored three field-goals and helped the Crimson melt a 68 to 55 bulge to six points at the finish...