Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere each hour, become incandescent from friction. But rarely are astronomers able to photograph the hot spots and analyze the spectra. Last week Harvard's Dr. Peter Mackenzie Millman proudly reported that he had spectral pictures of nine meteors. Six, possibly seven were mostly stone. All contained some iron (heated to vapors of between 2,600° and 4,600° F.). One or more contained calcium, manganese, aluminum, chromium. Three containing magnesium burned greenishly...
...populated by Rivera's chunky, concentrated figures. Others showed a pharmaceutical factory (Parke, Davis & Co.), airplane welders, poison gas workers, topped in huge scale by females representing the raw materials of Detroit's industries: a white woman for limestone, black for coal, yellow for sand, red for iron ore. Critics rated the frescoes first-class, noted an increasing hardness and sharpness in Rivera's detail. Nearly overlooked was a little panel high on one wall, showing a child being vaccinated in a serum laboratory. In the foreground were serum-giving animals, a horse, a bull and sheep...
Cried a miner's wife when the teller of a St. Clairsville, Ohio bank told her husband the iron potful of money he offered in payment for a house was $2,000 too much: "John, you got the wrong...
Matsuoka, who headed the Japanese delegation that recently walked out of the League Assembly, was threatened with death in New York City a few days ago. Yesterday while on the train on route to Boston, a second assassination plot was revealed when a railway police officer discovered two iron pipes wrapped in a Chinese flag lying across the track. Matsuoka was not informed of this plot until he reached Boston. He was accompanied by four detectives...
Once famed as Germany's "Iron Man" because of his Bismarckian manner at conferences, straight-necked Dr. Schacht is genial, kindly, twinkle-eyed among friends. Enemies (mostly people he has outguessed) call him a disgusting opportunist with the vanity of a Pompadour and the ambition of a Napoleon. It is better to call him Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, his father having been a cover-to-cover reader of the works of Horace Greeley. Last week Dr. Schacht said...