Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maurice Chevalier has the top spot as far as performing honors go-his imperturbable jauntiness and brashness have a decidedly infections quality. He is a past master of the "slow burn"-the process of catching on to a situation slowly and reflecting this in a radical change of facial expression. Here is where Chevalier's twitching eyebrows and sliding scalp work an hard that they aboost earn feature billing...
After 15 years in prison, Larry Nelson is released into a world of soft lips, hard guys, and easy money. He is an innocent strong boy, and is forced into struggles with six or eight gangsters and a couple of attractive but not very reliable women. In the process, he gets himself called the "most perfect physical specimen," rescues a dying tubercular gangster from a flaming house, knocks out several elegant thugs, and learns that "there's nothing in the world like a dame...
...gave a brief summary of the process that results in radioactive tracers, and expressed the opinion that great advances would come from the atom...
Early man-made quartz crystals were too small to be useful. During World War II the Germans did better, but not well enough. Last week Dr. Albert C. Walker of the Bell Telephone Laboratories told a gathering of scientists in Ithaca how Bell engineers had improved the German process until it grows quarter-pound crystals in only two weeks...
...Turbo-Hearth" furnace blows jets of air across the surface of a pool of molten pig iron. The oxygen in the air combines with the impurities, removes them from the iron, turns the iron to low-carbon steel. This method is not very different from the Bessemer process, which blows air upward through molten iron. But U.S. Steel says the new way is much better, producing superior steel from iron that the Bessemer process cannot handle easily. It works so fast that one 30-ton Turbo-Hearth can make more steel in a day than a 225-ton open-hearth...