Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pour from the golden trumpets...
...Metropolitan, the nation's largest and richest museum. Last week death came to the two men who directed these institutions: Duncan Phillips, 79, who ran the most intimate of museums, his own, and James Joseph Rorimer, 60, who on a Sunday could watch 47,000 visitors pour through the Met's portals. Both men, in their way, had given visual pleasure, instruction and enlightenment to millions...
...patient's concern, his uneasiness, about doctors and doctoring is deeply ingrained. Because mankind has been so utterly and helplessly dependent on him, the doctor touches man's profoundest anxieties, eliciting both nervous humor and distrust. Said Voltaire: "Doctors pour drugs of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing." George Bernard Shaw gibed that doctors score only triumphs, since their mistakes are always buried. Over the ages, doctors have compounded both the awe and the anxiety by acting as a self-anointed priesthood whose rites...
...CONTINUOUS CASTING. The idea is so obvious that Bessemer filed a patent on it 101 years ago, but complex production bugs stymied its use until recently. The ordinary method of casting is to pour the metal into ingot molds to harden, strip away the mold, reheat the ingot and roll it into semifinished shapes. Continuous casting eliminates these cumbersome steps. A ladle atop a tower pours white-hot steel into a 2-to-4-ft-deep oscillatfhg copper-lined mold. As the mold bottom is withdrawn, an unbroken billet of barely crusted steel creeps down through cooling water sprays...
...most rewarding work came in October and November when we had a chance to pour concrete. We shoveled sand and gravel and concrete into metal bowls which students carried on their heads and threw into the cement mixer. Others picked up wheelbarrows full of cement, raced down narrow boardways and dumped them into the stone bed of the foundation. It was hard work and the sun was getting hotter, but when the day was over we could see the floor of the building that we had made...