Word: spinned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...face of the FTC report, the coffee industry flatly denies that it was responsible for coffee's dizzy spin. Brazilian growers argue that all early crop reports are bound to be inaccurate. To judge yesterday's estimate by today's knowledge, say the coffeemen, is both unsound and unfair. Furthermore, when viewed in terms of the expected 1954 harvest v. the actual harvest, the crop loss from frost was an estimated 2,932,700 bags, or 17%; FTC's 8% figure is based on a false comparison with 1953 production...
...fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...
Early one morning last week, Lieut. Colonel Sir Geoffrey Betham, secretary of a tony country club on the Thames, went out for a quiet spin in his motor launch. As he churned along the rowing course at Henley, Sir Geoffrey came upon a strange sight. A slim figure was moving along the bank, methodically measuring with a length of chain. Peering through the grey English drizzle, Sir Geoffrey recognized Nikolai Kolosovsky, coxswain of the crack Russian Eight that was entered in the Henley Royal Regatta. "By gad," exploded Sir Geoffrey, "they're checking the course! These Russians! They...
...Technical University. At 24, with a diploma and a Danish wife and daughter, Strobel immigrated to New York. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Strobel, the fair's chief structural engineer, tested the amusement section's thrill-ride contraptions by taking the first spin on each. During World War II, he designed prefabricated Army barracks and portable airplane hangars. His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman has a variety of edifices to its credit, including shopping centers, railroad stations, factories, hospitals, churches, and the cosmotron building at the Brookhaven National Laboratory...
...spun off (with Murchison retaining control) when the Trans-Canada pipeline deal shaped up. The pipeline's future seemed so solid to Murchison that he thought it had no place in wildcatting Delhi. Said he: "Canadian Delhi is so conservative we kicked it out of Delhi." Such corporate spin-offs have well profited Murchison and his stockholders. A man who paid $1,000 for 1,000 shares of Southern Union in 1943, and exercised all rights and options since then, would have spent a total of $31,688 (easily borrowed against his holdings). By now, his dividends would have...