Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottom of the sea. They had just absorbed three jolts out of their first four tries, something unheard of in football at the little South Worcester Institution, and they were counting on nothing less than a victory over Harvard to snap them out of this spin...
Disk jockeys at Eliot House will have a new place to spin platters when workmen get through current alterations financed from the University grant of $6000 for House improvements. A record storage room is being created out of a closet in the rear of the Library, while nearby a sound proofed room will provide sufficient quiet for disk enthusiasts...
...first time they showed up at Columbia Records, they were all set to spin some doggerel of their own, but Columbia wanted them to do Open the Door, Richard instead. They had 15 minutes to work out an arrangement. It sold 650,000 copies. The Three Flames have now been signed to a five-year recording contract with Columbia. They are making plans to let Paris in on the act next February...
...incite the bull to charge, then look up into the gallery as the bull passes him, depending only on the feel of the muleta* in his hand to guide the bull and turn it. It gives you the same feeling that you get when an airplane goes into a spin...
...everything inside and spin the sphere," he explains, "how different it is! Centrifugal force places all objects in their right sequence by density: solids, liquids, gases; and in the very center there will be a vacuum, whereto protons and electrons converge to form 'fotons' which in turn constitute the sun. . . ." As imaginatively sketched by Navarro's son, the universe fits, cozily inside a globe with a thick, unpleasantly scrofulous outside crust...