Word: mold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought an interest in an iron works on Pittsburgh's South Side. He was joined a few years later by James Laughlin, an Irish immigrant who had prospered in a slaughtering and provisions business. Succeeding generations of Joneses and Laughlins have been cast with remarkable regularity in the mold of the founding partners. The Joneses went for steel, the Laughlins for culture. Founder Jones was already a bigwig in .he steel industry when Andrew Carnegie was a local telegraph boy. When Carnegie succeeded in delivering a message to Mr. "ones personally, Mr. Jones would...
...Carnegie Institution's men at Mt. Wilson Observatory. The committee in charge of the project is headed by Mt. Wilson's venerable George Ellery Hale, famed solar authority. The first 200-in. mirror was marred during the casting when cores broke loose from the floor of the mold and floated to the top of the molten glass (TIME, April 2, 1934). Rather than grind out the huge pockmarks in the mirror's back, the Corning physicists decided to cast a new disk.* Second time the cores stayed in place...
...body of students, presumably at least a large minority, who take definite interest in politics and political questions. Those who have scorned and scoffed, with some justification, at past manifestations of political activity in Harvard, have now a unique opportunity to enter a political group at its beginning, and mold it along more intelligent lines...
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (Brothers Shubert, Producers) falls comfortably into the mold of its 24 predecessors. None of its comedy is funny enough to make anyone wear himself out laughing. On the other hand, Vincente Minnelli's diverting surrealist decor, the arts of a half-dozen stars and the blandishments of 48 show girls are likely to keep most spectators from going to sleep. Only if he expects Josephine Baker to be something out of the ordinary will a ticket holder be actually disappointed by this year's Follies...
Names have a special significance which seems either to mold the persons who bear them into the proper types or, perhaps, names just happen to fit the individuals to whom they belong. "Homer" seems to have that certain something which can be attached to no other and the fact that Edward Everett Horton has been able to grasp the distinction of the name "Homer Bits", makes his current picture an unbounded success...