Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pure iron is a relatively soft metal. A little carbon added yields hard steel. Steel plus a trifle of manganese gives an alloy hard enough, when fabricated into rails, to support heavy subway traffic. If with manganese steel a bit of molybdenum is mixed, the alloyed steel is still harder. G. M. Eaton of Molybdenum Corp. of America advised railroads to use the molybdenum steel for rails. It would support the heavier locomotives and trains that U. S. transportation is requiring. X-rayed Metals. Use X-rays for detecting blowholes, pinholes, porosity, shrinks and refractory and other foreign matter...
...Lloyd aboard and saw that the old gentleman was comfortable. Reporters were told that "pressing business detained" the General Director in Germany. But intimates of STIM-MING know that he never crosses the Atlantic on his own ships, always on those of competing lines, studying them, working hard, thinking harder...
...being spent on machines to make machines, only 22% on the manufacture of goods for direct consumption. Therefore Soviet stores have little goods on their shelves. Calico is as expensive as silk. Shiny new boots, seal of a Russian peasant's prosperity, are hard to find, harder...
...combination with other metals. Most famed union is the copper-tin alloy bronze, from which was fashioned the short sword of the Roman Legions. Varying proportions of copper and tin give gun metal, bell metal, babbitt metal and many another alloy, the greater the percentage of tin the harder being the resulting composition. A tin and lead alloy is solder. Greatest use of tin (35% of total) is the making of tin-plate from which comes the familiar tin can. A tin can consists of about 98½% iron or steel and 1½% of tin-the tin being merely...
...always true that the senior who is given a degree has obtained a better education (in the broad sense of the word) than the senior from whom a degree is withheld. Thus the system may frequently do a grave injustice to a senior, only because he has chosen the harder path...