Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight innings. In the third walks to the first two men up got Healey in hot water, and he was in deeper when a sacrifice by Johnson moved each man forward a base. Bogart, a speedier runner, replaced Tuthill on third and when Gannett of Cornell bounced a roller at Lupien, Bogart slid in under the throw home. A fly to center field and strike out ended the rally...
Rippling down the long steel roller table in a shimmer of heat, it comes to the transfer table. If the strip is destined for such heavy duty as steel tanks, it is merely sheared into sections, left to cool. If it is to go into more specialized uses, such as automobile fenders, its processing has barely begun. Shooting down the roller table at 24 m.p.h., it plunges into a slot, is caught by a set of rollers in a circle and, in a red mist it coils itself into a spool, is deposited on a moving belt ready for "pickling...
...tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster than Glenn Cunningham runs the mile. Whisssh, with a scream of scalding steam as cold water plays on it to wash off ash and scale, it dives under the first...
...steps in the twilight smoking, when their lady friends sit with them in open cars, when all music is a waltz, when the little girls tie blue ribbons in their pigtails, and older sisters walk together laughing in the darkness. It was when shouting ragamuffins go roller skating up the street, and older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press in, when a roommate borrows the car to go to Wellesley, when the debutantes read poetry, when the moon is a soft, golden cartwheel...
Many modern artists hold on to the past as a man holds his hat in a roller coaster. Manhattan's Whitney Museum upholds U. S. tradition but it has distinguished itself for doing so gracefully...