Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Difference. The fans, however, don't think of DiMag as a fielder. They come to see him knock one out of the park. Whether at Yankee Stadium or on the road, a reverent roar greets him as he strides to the plate. Joe tells himself that the pitchers should be more worried than he is, and they usually are. He is a cool, relaxed figure, his bat held high and motionless, as he waits for the ball to zip in from the pitcher's box, 60 ft. away, at something like 91 m.p.h...
...room mansion in Chicago's famed Levee. It boasted gold spittoons, silk drapes, thick rugs, expensive statuary and paintings, a gilded piano, and 40 specially made brass and marble beds. Little fountains squirted perfume into its rooms at regular intervals. Its dinners sometimes cost $100 a plate and were served on gold-edged china. Champagne arrived in golden buckets...
...Which transfers Vari-Typed copy to a zinc plate and then to a rubber roller which prints it, thus eliminating metal type and the costlier flat-bed press which small papers ordinarily...
With her trim figure, blonde hair and syrup-colored eyes, fun-loving Mitty González looks like a French fashion plate. She was the first in Santiago to wear the New Look. But unlike Eva Perón, another South American style-setter, she cares little for politics. Says she: "Women's suffrage will not necessarily mean that every woman must run for office...
...Stronger than steel, withstood shell fragments as successfully as armor plate ..." Thus a laminated plastic cloth was excitedly described at last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington (see SCIENCE). This week a small sailboat made of the same plastic took honors in the first postwar plastics competition sponsored by the magazine Modern Plastics; the boat is impervious to marine worms, needs no paint and can withstand bullets fired at close range...