Word: smasher
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...receives stolen goods on the side. Ernie is apprentice to a lithographer, is fired for laziness and ineptitude, becomes a hanger-out at the Fun Fair, a penny arcade replete with peep shows, pinball games, shooting gallery and a change girl named Ada -"a proper, right, straight up smasher of a bride" with yellow hair, red fingernails and a close-fitting sweater...
Ryan admits that last fall he used to be a smasher. Once, for example, when he had coached the ball too much from the sidelines and got a tilt, he became uncontrollably angry and smashed the glass covering...
...readily determined. > In timing steel smelting. All iron contains traces of phosphorus which makes steel brittle and must be "burned" out by prolonged cooking. Steel is often overcooked, wasting time and money, just to make sure. But Westinghouse scientists in East Pittsburgh now make radioactive phosphorus with their atom-smasher, add a little of it to the molten iron. Then, as the steel cooks, it is an easy matter to take hourly samples, test them for radioactivity. When the radioactivity is gone, the phosphorus is gone...
These amazing, interrelated economies have made welding the greatest bottleneck smasher in U.S. shipbuilding. Welding is being used wherever possible, but some riveting still goes on. Reason: shortage of welders, and the existence of riveting skills and equipment which it is not yet wise to junk. In 1918 some 16% of a ship yard's personnel were riveters. Today the average is about...
...young man who will probably be champion in some not too distant year and then a pro if he so chooses, is Ted Schroeder. Only 20 and lacking experience, Schroeder is the best volleyer and smasher in the amateur game, and therefore better at doubles than at singles. He holds the national doubles championship with Jack Kramer. At Sea Bright, main warm-up for Forest Hills, he was good enough in singles to get as far as the final, and it took Bobby Riggs to beat him. Last week cool Mr. Riggs beat him again, this time in a semifinal...