Word: sot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventeen bells make up a real Russian Zvon sot. Lowell House has only 16, one of them having been found to be more out of key than the others. The family bell, fourth largest in the set, now signals the end of classes at the Business School. The 16 at Lowell range in size from a 13-ton brute to a pint-sized gremlin of 22 pounds...
...proposal was more lenient than the Treasury's, for its higher excess-profits tax (94% compared to 75%) penalizes efficient businesses that are getting ahead in the world and its lower normal and surtaxes (40% compared with 55%) lighten the relative tax load on businesses that are sot in their ways. The proposal of the National Association of Manufacturers, for a 100% excess-profits levy (TIME, March 23), was even more calculated to freeze efficiency and competition out of industry...
...late Dr. Williams, a shaggy-browed, sot-in-his-ways New Englander, who loved his old checkered cap more than he did the limelight, is less famed than his coaching contemporaries: Chicago's Amos Alonzo Stagg (his friend and football teammate in their turtleneck days at Yale) and Michigan's Fielding H. Yost (his archrival for 20 years). But the good doctor, who practiced gynecology nine months of the year during his coaching days at Minnesota, conceived many football maneuvers-notably the Minnesota Shift, forerunner of all quick shifts-that played an important part in the development...
...Lovett, and his knack for the diplomatic intrusion of new ideas. Notwithstanding the popular impression that the Air Corps is a young man's branch, with young ideas, the U.S. Air Corps, like the rest of the Army, has its share of ranking oldsters who are sot in their ways. Part of Secretary Lovett's job is to unsot them...
Torgan and Dillon, in the defense department, are startling contrasts to the attack. Both are relatively short and claim their positions not so much by their spectacular shooting but rather by their shifty floor work and passing. Torgan is a sot shot specialist; while Dillon rates as probably the best ball handler on the squad. Neither one has shown any outstanding scoring abilities but they emphasize dependability and control...