Word: spinner
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...been horse stealing-for exporters to steal as much of a foreign market as they could by underselling, for the victims to steal it back by imposing political quotas, tariffs and restrictions, fair or unfair. Dr. Murchison and friends in a mere ten days got the powerful Japan Cotton Spinner's Association to agree to steal no more of the U. S. market. The U. S. textile men promised to steal nothing back from the Japanese by political methods. Horse trading was substituted for horse stealing (TIME, March...
...marked the introduction of the "hidden ball" or spinner plays. Haughton had developed these the summer before by experimenting with the plays, using his wife, famed for her judgment, and his dog, which was an excellent ball-chaser. Finding that both womanly institution and canine instinct were successfully fooled in trying to locate the holder of the ball, he decided that plays of this type were feasible in actual play...
...spinner was first tried on Princeton, and I don't blame them for thinking that their eyesight had gone bad, as King or some alternate back had the ball where the Tigers defence men were...
Another department where Haley was used very frequently was on the spinner play that Harvard used again and again this year with quite a margin of success...
...making rayon by the viscose process, cellulose is first reduced to a viscous mass. For Sniafiocco the stuff is passed through a fine-mesh screen; the threads are coagulated, cut, finished. They are then ready for the spinner. Snia Viscosa loudly protests against labeling Sniafiocco a synthetic or substitute cotton. It is superior to cotton, say the Italians, in that the staple length of its fibre is precisely even and can be given any length wanted by the spinner, and that it is free of dirt and leaves which contaminate raw cotton. Thus although Sniafiocco fibre costs more than cotton...