Word: tins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were suddenly perking up. In an unexpected spurt of buying, lead prices rose for the first time in eight months (to 13? a lb.), picking up ¼? a lb. for two days running. Zinc jumped ½? to 9¾? a lb., its first rise in more than a year. Tin, tacking on a nickel, shot up to 93? a lb. as purchases were stepped up. Judging from the metal futures markets, which last week scored the biggest gains in years, metal speculators figure the rises will stick...
...lieutenants, a squad of sergeants and a radio operator, taking walkie-talkie calls from patrolmen stationed for blocks around. The radio crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed...
...second and third games and the early part of the fourth, Brownell drove. Campbell from wall to wall with his accurate low shots, mixed with occasional, drop and corner shots. Campbell was regularly hitting the tin. But when Brownell seemed to tire slightly Campbell began to confidently pick his shots out of the air before the bounce and to beat Brownell at his own back court game. The game scores were...
...industrialists, merchants and intellectuals think themselves lucky now if they can get jobs as night watchmen." They longed for their children, but these the Reds had kept behind in Rumania. They hoped for comfort in the promised land, but found their spirits broken in lonely months in one-roomed tin huts and canvas shacks...
...wisdom of these students entering the Houses as sophomores. Describing himself as "a fierce protagonist of the four-year college," Finley said that he has always thought of Harvard's housing system as "letting the boy make friends while brushing teeth in Weld Hall before moving behind the tin doors of the Houses." If putting these entering students in the Houses became a general rule, Finley said he would consider it a bad idea, but that occasionally there could be exceptions...