Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Science. Soldiers in Colonial uniforms will guard a case 18 in. square and 3 ft. high. The case will be made of bullet-proof steel. Its top will be made of plunder-proof, non-shatterable glass. It will be bolted to the concrete floor and weighted down with iron. A combination safe lock will guard its contents. Peering through the non-shatterable glass the sight-seer will see, fastened to a silver rod, George Washington's false teeth, the lower set dangling from the upper by the little gold springs which held them in his country's father...
When a piece of iron or other substance is magnetized, the molecules yank one way. When the substance is demagnetized the molecules jerk helter-skelter. The magnetic yanking causes molecular friction and produces an appreciable amount of heat which Professor Wrilliam F. Giauque, University of California chemist, used last week to reach the lowest degree of cold yet attained...
Cutting an industry's costs by coordinating its members, a plan now being studied for U. S. railroads, is also before British industry, where it is called "rationalizing." Last week the British Imports Duties Advisory Committee was seriously considering a plan for the formation of "Iron & Steel Corporation of Great Britain." The direct object of the plan is to concentrate progressively all production in the more efficient plants and eliminate "redundant and inefficient works...
...been made in the fire-fighting system, and a system of fire doors has not been worked out. The only possible exit from the building outside of the narrow, poorly-lit, stairways, is through the make-shift, self-operated rope fire escape in each room, suspended from a thin iron hook. There is only one rope in every room, whether single or double. In the event that the other dormitories of the University are filled next year, it is possible that the University will attempt to utilize Shepherd Hall as a residence for dropped Freshmen again...
...little dragon-prowed ships with red sails moved slowly westward from Iceland. Somewhere in the grey Atlantic their Norwegian outlaw leader Eric the Red expected to find a new land. North Atlantic gales blew up. Many a little ship foundered, its red-bearded vikings drowned stolidly in their iron helmets and shirts of mail. But Eric sailed on until he came on a mountainous waste of land. Four years later he sailed there again with 14 shiploads of colonists, survivors of 25 ships that had tacked away from Iceland. Not because his new land was briefly luxuriant in summer...