Word: steams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...delegates to the Progressive Party's second annual convention headed for Chicago last week, their chattering political machine seemed on the verge of disintegrating in a cloud of steam like a vaudeville Ford of the 1920s. A faction headed by former Assistant U.S. Attorney General O. John Rogge was threatening to yank the Communists out of the driver's seat-an operation which seemed likely to shatter the weakened chassis and send Henry Wallace flying skyward in a spray of worn piston rings...
...Morning of Dec. 4. A powdery snow began to fall outside. Under an old-fashioned tin ceiling, in the steam-heated courtroom, the twelve men and alternate sat down to consider the case. The trial had drawn the attention of half the world. On hand were photographers, newsmen, feature writers (among them, Novelists Fannie Hurst and John O'Hara), reporters from London and Paris newspapers. Dr. Sander, lean-faced, pale and expressionless, his busy and respected career interrupted, sat inside the courtroom rail with his wife, the mother of his three children...
...across Canada, the headlines followed Broda's "Battle of the Bulge" as he dieted, exercised and took steam baths...
...Wright ram jets have "flown" only in a monstrous test chamber at the Wright plant at Wood-Ridge, N.J. Compressors blow air into the ram jet's nose. Simultaneously, three steam "ejectors,"' fed with steam from the plant's main boilers, pull combustion gases out of the ram jet's exhaust. By regulating the compressors and ejectors, the engineers can feed the ram jet with air of almost any speed and density. It is no trick at all to make it act as if it were speeding 2,000 m.p.h. at an altitude of 15 miles...
...shadows and wet, back-lighted cobblestones of Vienna at night. Cameraman Robert (Odd Man Out) Krasker gives beautiful expression to Reed's photogenic tricks, e.g., as a train chugs out of the station, nothing is seen but the light patterns of its windows projected across a cloud of steam...