Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell...
...creation of Charles Penrose,* 66, the dynamic member of a Philadelphia engineering firm who has been described as a combination of P. T. Barnum and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The society was originally started in England in 1920 as a technical group commemorating Thomas Newcomen, father of the steam engine. An American branch was soon launched by the late Leonor F. Loree, longtime dean of American railroad presidents. Penrose, a close friend of Loree's, was a charter member...
...hands. This was proved last fall when Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson and a few other Republicans got dishonorable mention in the course of investigation into Washington influence-peddling. Up to that point, exposure of the Democrats had been rolling along with ever-mounting momentum. After that point, the steam began to go out of G.O.P. exposures of Democratic corruption...
...course for them, along mountain ledges, through deep swamps, or into the beds of wild mountain rivers as much as half a mile wide. In such terrain the automatic ditching machines used on other pipeline projects were practically useless. It took blasting powder to cut through the rocks, steam shovels to ladle away the quicksands of the swamps, and three-ton concrete clamps to hold the pipe in place in the river currents...
...Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 8 sides). A rousing version of a masterpiece too seldom performed (its last performance at the Metropolitan Opera was in 1931, and no tenors have looked strong enough to warrant its production there since). Filippeschi blasts out his killing high notes with plenty of steam. Recording : on the shrill side...