Word: hearths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Four years ago Herbert W. Graham, supervising metallurgist for the fourth largest U. S. steel maker, Jones & Laughlin, persuaded his company to build a miniature steel mill for research. This $175,000 toy mill's open-hearth furnace, ingot molds, soaking pit and rollers produce one-inch square bars...
...Lossiemouth are both my heart and my hearth," said he. "A Lossie loon [boy] was I born, and a Lossie loon shall...
...Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave him shelter. With long hair flying and beard full of burrs, he would lope from the forest at evening, accept supper from a solitary homesteader, read aloud from the Bible or a volume of Swedenborg he usually carried, sleep on the hearth and be off at dawn, often leaving a few pages of his Bible behind him. Growing to believe that clothes were not for comfort but only to cover nakedness, he took to wearing a coffee sack with holes for his arms and legs. He ate no meat, lived chiefly...
Once in the War of 1812 he ran 60 miles in a day to warn settlers of an Indian raid. Finally, at 72, he wandered to Fort Wayne, Ind. At a settler's house near there, after hiking 20 miles, he lay down on the hearth to rise no more...
...jittery crew the small, shabby-British freighter Hestia was unlucky because she was named after a goddess (of the hearth). She had run aground, collided with a Russian ship, caught fire. Now they were waiting off Celebes to replace a captain who had just died full of ominous mutterings. Into this Conrad-like setting Author Tomlinson introduces as main character of Pipe All Hands lean, elderly...