Word: molding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...metallurgy, Thompson now makes such blades out of powdered iron and a copper alloy, eliminating a great deal of waste. It has also succeeded in casting incredibly intricate parts by pouring mercury into a die, freezing it and dipping the mercury pattern in liquid ceramic to form a mold. Then the mercury is let run out at room temperature, and parts are cast from the ceramic mold...
...muddled thinking of the pseudo-intellectuals . . . should no longer be revered or allowed to go unchallenged . . . Such an article, with its overtones and implications, could patriotically be emulated by other great magazines which both mold and reflect public opinion...
This statistical equilibrium is symbolic of the whole tone of the house. It has very little special character of its own, yet it strives to maintain President Lowell's original ideal of a House as "the college in microcosm." It does not try to mold its members into either gentlemen or scholars, but lets its members mold it and themselves...
Last November's elections showed the folly of letting the "liberal" tail wag the Democratic dog, he continued. By trying to mold the Democratic Party to their own image, "extremists who call themselves liberals" had alienated Southern voters and lost the election for two "great Americans"-Stevenson and Sparkman. If the liberals continued their efforts "to drive the South out of the party," he warned, the Democrats would suffer "the most disastrous defeat in American political history" in next year's congressional elections...
...project. What differentiates it from money-raising functions like the student-movie business is this: by ballooning itself to the point where it tries to include everyone in the College, the Weekend smothers the under graduate's social freedom, and casts him, at least for one weekend, into the mold of Joe College, desperately trying to have an organized good time...