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...clockwise twist to the handle. Up the ice it came in a smooth, shallow curve. "Don't brush!" shouted McKinlay. Just before the stone came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...
...circulation, concluded that Southern New England winters can be keyed to the ferocity of November. This November was sufficiently ferocious. If Baur's theories are correct, there will be more cars frozen in, ear-muffs will continue to sell briskly, and the little men who run ski resorts will rub their chapped hands in glee...
Even those men who did come from other parts of the United States were not required to live in College dormitories and often stayed in boarding houses around the Square. The University was not concerned with making its students mingle together to rub off their provincialism...
...photography rub shoulders with painting and sculpture as a fine art? Master U.S. Photographer Edward Steichen has never doubted it.* His main job nowadays is planning exhibits of camera craft for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and every year since 1947 he has mounted shows to prove his point. Steichen's latest demonstration: his selection of 187 of the best pictures that have appeared in LIFE in the past 15 years...
...plan for MoPac. It would give him control, by cutting in common stockholders, but he insisted it would also give bondholders a better deal too. He would give each bondholder $445 in cash and a $1,000 bond with a fixed annual interest rate. There was a rub to Young's plan; the bondholders might have to wait a while before they got their cash. While paying them off with some of the $104 million in MoPac's till, Young would use most of the road's cash to improve MoPac's financial condition...