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...absence of blocking also accounts for the comparative safety of the game. Though there was still the tendency to "pile-up." as in a rugby scrum, the scientific and often dangerous body-contact of present-day football had not yet arrived. Tackling was more a question of pulling a man down than of bringing him down...
Instruments of Business. This time the little Czar's antagonists had seen him coming. The $250,000,000-a-year recording industry has been working overtime in recent weeks to pile up backlogs; there were trade estimates that some companies had built up a supply of unissued records for two or three years, that at least a year's supply of new popular tunes was already transcribed in Hollywood cinema libraries. And there was nothing to prevent repressing from old master records...
...first editorial offices were in the high-ceilinged front parlor of a narrow Victorian house on Cass Street (now North Wabash Avenue). Tiny Editor Monroe sat hidden behind a rolltop desk, bobbing up into view every time the door opened, sinking down again to lose herself in the pile of manuscripts. By 1936, when she died at 75, Miss Monroe had racked up an astonishing record of Poetry firsts: she was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, a satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo...
...mansion of Washington Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a public museum. Inside the quaint white pile, decked with crowstep gables, weathercocks and bronze finials, visitors found Irving's library intact, saw his shaving equipment, medicine bottles, pens and four-poster...
...Glendenin of M.I.T., announced that while working at Oak Ridge, Tenn. they had synthesized and isolated Element 61, thus filling the last gap in the periodic table. They had extracted the missing element from the miscellaneous "fission products" formed by uranium atoms splitting in the Oak Ridge pile, and had also built it up by bombarding Element No. 60 (neodymium) with neutrons...