Word: slotted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Undefeated Paul Catinella will face once-beaten Tom Pollard at 130, while Harvard sophomore Mark Faller will oppose undefeated John Ziegler at 160. Bart Harvey, a sophomore with a 1-1 record, will defend the 152-pound slot against Springfield's Al Nero...
...Lion's heavyweight woes may be eased by the addition of Jim Peterson at the 177 slot, which Columbia has had to forfeit in their previous matches...
...profits were still higher last year. Johnson raised the investment in new cars and track and computerized the line's traffic-information operation. At the railroad's Chicago commuter stations, he installed turnstiles that open automatically when a passenger inserts a magnetically coded ticket in a slot. Through a merger now awaiting approval by the Interstate Commerce Commission, Johnson hopes to link his railroad-which covers 6,714 miles in 14 states, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico-with the 2,734-mile Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, whose tracks often parallel the Illinois Central...
Starting out as a bodyguard and chauffeur, Valachi survived shifts in power as tricky as ups and downs under the Borgias. He and a partner made $2,500 a week from the slot-machine business. Valachi also ran a numbers racket, a "classy horse room" in White Plains, N.Y., and a loan-shark operation. He bought his own race horses. During World War II, Valachi worked the gasoline black market, earning about $200,000 in three years from finagling with ration stamps. Even at that, he says, "I wasn't so big." After the war, he muscled into jukeboxes...
Masked Innocence. His imagination takes another turn with Burning House. Topped by a Dairy Queen turret, it stands on spindle legs like a kind of stylized cockerel. A .mirrored slot is its front door, a bell tolls the alarm from its innards, and brass flames flick from its windows. A viewer can peer past them to discover a drawing of a grotesque dragon and miniature ladders leading to invisible upper rooms from which there is obviously no escape. What does it mean? "I have no idea," says Westermann. "I cam build a thing, but I can't nail down...