How To Use Babbitt In A Sentence
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The lower guide-bearing (Fig. 6) is simply a sleeve flanged at one end, babbitted on the inside, and slightly tapered on the outside where it fits into the base.
Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers
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Formerly bastions of intellectual freedom in a world of Babbittry, formerly the locus of sexual freedom and experimentation, they now became the most restrictive environments in modern society.
State of fear
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Col Babbitt and Mrs Zemp were invited to visit Rishworth School and yesterday saw the original Sowerby Parish Registers at the archives in the Central Library.
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I then buncoed the engineer of an English tramp steamer into selling me a 25-pound chunk of imported metal made by Mr. Babbitt himself and stamped with his name and coat of arms - but that lot didn't last long and I couldn't get any more of it.
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Then they got this fellow Babbitt to follow me around with that cursed gocart, and I haven't had a moment's peace since.
Shorty McCabe
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Theoretically a babbitted journal bearing has an infinite life.
Undefined
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The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss.
'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
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The thrust of the disc from the main friction and the spring which holds it in its place, is against a babbitted face in the mandrel box.
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In 1920, the unadmired great man of American letters, William Dean Howells, died, and Lewis published Main Street; then Babbitt (1922); Arrowsmith (1925); Elmer Gantry (1927); Dodsworth (1929).
The Romance of Sinclair Lewis
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Beginning in the 1930s, Baxter D. Whitney & Sons of Winchendon, Massachusetts, supplied Babbitt-bearing-to-ball-bearing conversion kits for its early planers.
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Moon, and Babbitt felt himself a person of importance, one whose name even busy garagemen remembered — not one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers.
Babbit
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Meanwhile, colleges were expanding the elective system and allowing the substitution of modern for classical languages, developments which Babbitt unchivalrously blames on the rising numbers of female undergraduates.
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The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss.
'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
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He leaves behind a system that Federal Aviation Administration FAA head Randy Babbitt says is in the process of transformation but that critics describe as demoralized by almost eight years of turmoil and change.
The Seattle Times
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Late Night With Jan Harayda – Babbittry at the Cleveland Orchestra?
2008 September 25 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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A veteran of fighting Western wildfires as a young man, Babbitt renewed his certification in 1994.
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Frankly, I'd say 14 years is long enough and the people of Williams Lake out to follow the mayor's advice and throw the authoritarian, babbling bourgeois Babbittish bum out
Archive 2008-07-01
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In growing meekness Babbitt went on waiting till Hanson casually reappeared with a quart of gin — what is euphemistically known as a quart — in his disdainful long white hands.
Babbit
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Charles Wuorinen is directing the festival, and listeners who are stuck in the musical politics of the relatively recent past or who think that Mr. Wuorinen's music lies on the severe, atonal side, might assume that this year's festival would tilt toward what Milton Babbitt semijokingly called maximalism.
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Late Night With Jan Harayda - Babbittry at the Cleveland Orchestra?
One-Minute Book Reviews
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Babbitt is the upholder of everything that is conservative, conventional and respectable.
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He calls the Beverly Hills supporters of the Santa Monica alignment "Pinocchios" and "Babbitts," in the same sentence, no less.
John Mirisch: Middle America and the Westside Subway
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said Moon, and Babbitt felt himself a person of importance, one whose name even busy garagemen rememberednot one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers.
Chapter 3
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The third Babbitt work was "It Takes Twelve to Tango" 1984, a short, lively version of the Argentine dance, refracted through a dodecaphonic prism.
NYT > Home Page
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Babbitt sat on the stump, facing the dark pond, slapping mosquitoes.
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There is no truth to the rumor that it is former Clinton and Babbitt nomenclator Fred DuVal.
Archive 2006-08-01
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On turbines running at 1800 revolutions per minute or under, a split babbitted bearing is used, as shown in Figs. 42a and 42b.
Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers
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` ` Mornin ', Mr. Babbitt!' 'said Moon, and Babbitt felt himself a person of importance, one whose name even busy garagemen remembered -- not one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers.
Babbitt
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Mornin ', Mr. Babbitt!" said Moon, and Babbitt felt himself a person of importance, one whose name even busy garagemen remembered -- not one of these cheap-sports flying around in flivvers.
Babbitt
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
2009 February 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Since then, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has been barnstorming all over the West visiting proposed areas and soliciting public comment.
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
2009 February 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Among other process issues related to the timing and lead up to the announcement of a new National Monument, Babbitt established a new subagency within the Bureau, called the National Landscape Conservation System, to be responsible for managing National Monuments and wilderness areas.
A Visionary Act
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Babbitt gulped down his food, ‘laid unmoving lips against [Myra's] unblushing cheek,’ and left for work.
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Proves Babbittism: music should be "literally as much as possible" #music about 7 hours, 54 minutes ago
Readers recommend: discordant songs
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When Sinclair Lewis wrote Babbitt, he succeeded in creating a caricature of success typifying the mind-set of the twenties.