Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near Joliet, Ill. one afternoon last week, a group of oilmen and Chicago city officials assembled around a 30-in. pipe. While the state flags of Texas and Illinois fluttered in the breeze, the wheel of a big control valve was turned. There was a rearing whoosh, and gas from Texas began to flow to Chicago through a new 1,417-mile pipeline...
...said most. From England came three novels that would be standouts in any year. In The End of the Affair, Graham Greene wrote with explosive irony about an adulterous love affair that leads to sainthood. Some of his critics complained that the Roman Catholic in Greene had grabbed the wheel from the novelist at the end. But Greene's skill had never been surer, and his book was one that his fellow novelists could study with profit. Another English novelist who could be studied but scarcely imitated was Henry Green, a businessman who is also a born writer...
...course. Now, now boys, mustn't touch the ferris wheel, must we. There now, look out for that motor... What madame?" I took the reference with a shrug and started to ask about the latest in atom bomb kits. She shoved a microscope at me and raced down to the other end of the counter. Two of "my" boys were racing the mechanical cars head...
...impossible to give a coherent account of what this picture is about. It appears that the most psychopathic of the abounding royalty (Laughton) has a grudge against the members of one side of his family; Karloff, on the other hand, likes them. He therefore tosses Laughton into a water wheel which is about to crush en masse the only admirable characters in the film. Laughton clogs the wheel, and all is well...
...done by hand. As each vat of milk coagulates, trained men stir the curds with harplike tools and with a special rhythmic motion that is said to contribute to the cheese's flavor. At precisely the right moment, the cheese is pressed into 200-lb. wheels about ten inches thick and 30 inches in diameter. The wheels are placed on racks for six months of curing and aging, are rotated, washed and salted at proper intervals during this period. Not till the salt has permeated the whole wheel is the flavor right. Last week Brog's men figured...