Word: slantingly
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Undaunted by McCluskey's dodging, twisting run, Brown went right to work after Harvard kick off, marching 76 yards to tie the score at 7-7. The Bruins' counter came on a six-yard off-tackle slant by left-halfback Melvin Bryant...
...string of credits (among them: 13 Hitchcocks, six Markhams, scripts for General Electric Theatre, Alcoa, Goodyear, Schlitz Playhouse), Writer Silliphant has become known as television's thinking man. His scripts, say his devoted admirers, may occasionally be a little short on "heart," but they always have an esoteric slant that is uniquely Silliphant...
...largely missing from the Visual Arts Center. The sculptured gracefulness of the Chapel of Ronchamp and the Phillips Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair finds itself in an abbreviated form in the circular wings of the center and in a distant sort of way in the sweeping slant of its ramp...
Sometimes his sketches were nothing more than a two-line remembrance of the way a bit of hill met the sky or the strange slant to a tenement roof; often they were more explicit, recording texture and light as well as line, color as well as shape. By the time of his death in 1906. White had done well over a thousand drawings and watercolors; 40 of them were on view last week at Manhattan's Davis Galleries, exquisite if minor testaments to a major architect's first great love...
...Board. But sewing machines are still what make Singer's business hum. A decade ago, competition from cheaper Japanese machines and technologically superior European machines such as Pfaff and Necchi had Singer breathing hard. But today Singer's American-made "Slant-O-Matic" has recaptured technological superiority, and the machines that the company makes in overseas plants to be sold in the U.S. compete with the Japanese in price. Singer now holds more than 40% of the U.S. sewing-machine market and is picking up another 2% each year. Abroad, where the fastest growth in sewing-machine sales...