Word: welder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American entries alone provided dozens of provocative contrasts. From such hard-to-make and hard-to-take abstractions as David Smith's tortuous steel Cello Player (the work of a onetime war-plant welder), visitors could turn to such literary hardware as Mitzi Solomon's aluminum Family of Man Totem. Among the best of the relatively representational items were Alfeo Faggi's leggy, high-breasted Eva, Koren Der Harootian's Slave, Burr Miller's classic marble nude La Victoire, and William Steig's tiny, self-effacing Elderly...
Last week Ethel was back at Cross's side; when she first saw him she was so hysterical with joy it took half an hour to get her harness on. She had been fitted with modified welder's goggles (see cut). In a month Dr. Blasdel will check her eyes to see if she needs different lenses. Dr. Blasdel could do nothing for her master. Cross, now 30, lost his sight in an accident when he was 14; the optic nerve has atrophied...
...depression, he was jobless; finally he got work driving a railway speeder in the lumber woods. For eight years he left the logging camps only once in every four months to see his wife Christine and his young son. When the war began, he got a $300-a-month welder's job in a shipyard, but Selective Service ordered him back to the woods for the duration...
...Pittsburgh's Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital, a surgeon picked up a hot electric needle one day last week and went to work on Mayor David L. Lawrence's left eye. Some of the tissues inside the Mayor's eye were torn. Like a welder with a torch, the surgeon thrust his needle into the back of the eyeball, heated the damaged tissues and joined them together again. The chances were good that the drastic operation would save the Mayor's eyesight...
...Welder's triumph enabled them to maintain a perfect season record of two wins in as many starts, and come into undisputed possession of first place by moving out in front of Thayer and Matthews, who each have one victory against no losses. The Sad Sacks of Straus and the Vets of Holworthy are deadlocked in a tie for third place with two wins and one loss, while a .500 percentage puts the Wigglesworth Wonders in fourth slot...