Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games so far the team has shown an ability to get runs, which has meant good hitting in the pinches, but the players are still shaky in the field, as shown by the eight errors made in the Tufts game on Tuesday. More and more outside practice should iron out this defect soon...
...Cahercommaun, a ruin of massive masonry on the brink of a precipice, built about 900 A. D. Inside this were walled compartments into which livestock could have been driven to safety when marauders approached. In the citadel was a silver and gold brooch, and a skull impaled on an iron hook, as if the head had been on display after being cut off. Another find of this period was a gaming board, with rows of holes to receive pegs, a circle marking the centre hole. A long, quizzical face was carved on one of the board's handles...
...arrived from Britain about 7000 B. C., bringing Stone Age implements some 10,000 of which the Harvardmen found. In geological strata of this period pollen grains of elm, alder, beech and oak and fossil shellfish reveal a warm climate. The Bronze Age began about 1800 B. C., the Iron Age not until 100 A. D. From then until the Anglo-Norman conquests (12th Century) the Irish lived in wicker huts, wooden houses or crannogs-lake dwellings. Still being explored is a royal crannog where Irish kings held court for two centuries. To get a complete picture of Irishmen...
...perfect harmony on one subject-prospects for the steel industry over the next few months. Having suffered a sharp set-back during the period when Pittsburgh mills were under flood water, the industry last week more than recovered all lost ground, operations rising to 64½% of capacity. Iron Age, amazed by the demand for steel for immediate use. particularly from the auto mobile industry and construction projects in flood areas, predicted still further improvement in the most basic of U. S. industries. In Washington Messrs. Grace & Irvin revealed that their respective companies were currently operating near the industry...
Jones & Laughlin history dates from 1851 when Benjamin Franklin Jones, a onetime barge-line operator, bought an interest in an iron works on Pittsburgh's South Side. He was joined a few years later by James Laughlin, an Irish immigrant who had prospered in a slaughtering and provisions business. Succeeding generations of Joneses and Laughlins have been cast with remarkable regularity in the mold of the founding partners. The Joneses went for steel, the Laughlins for culture. Founder Jones was already a bigwig in .he steel industry when Andrew Carnegie was a local telegraph boy. When Carnegie succeeded...