Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Periodically, Comino's enthusiasm for efficiency breaks out in plantwide campaigns in which employees are asked to submit reports analyzing their jobs. Comino regarded one such report-on how to sweep the floor-as such a "masterly" study that he eventually upped its 16-year-old author from apprentice to production manager...
...Crimson moved 61 yards for its first touchdown midway though the first quarter. Clasby, unable to throw, but running very well, carried on seven of the 11 attempts, starting the drive with a 14 yard run off right end, and setting up the score with a flashy end sweep for 15 yards. With the Brown right side of the line seemingly weak, Conzelman called a reverse, and Clasby handed off to Cowles, who drove off his own left end into the end zone at 9:12. Joe Ross kick was good...
...Polonaise in E-Flat (Op.22) is already one so prodigious and accurate, that, after briefly marveling, we may look beyond and examine his strictly interpretive qualities. Of these I have only the slightest reservations: climaxes often arrive too abruptly, without the protracted preparation which alone can insure the unified sweep of a whole movement; while Mr. Berman achieves a power and fury in the climaxes which are thrilling indeed, the expressive device of understatement is little exploited...
Last week there were few specific hints on the big decisions being made in Washington. But some measure of their sweep and scope could be picked up at the President's press conference. In 26 minutes and 22 questions, no fewer than 18 subjects were discussed. They ranged from the elections in New Jersey to trouble in Israel, from the headaches of agriculture to the prospects of a Big Three conference. Among the major topic's: ¶On getting more atomic power and less manpower into U.S. defense plans: We all know, said the President, that new atomic...
...itinerant cameramen used these wooden "buzz-boxes,'' turning out four-foot films of school graduations and political clambakes. Today Photographer Strock finds new use for the oldtime cameras by fitting them with modern color film, to capture the charging players and the roaring crowds in a single sweep...