Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coward, he enlisted in the German Army in 1914, mostly fought against British troops, never learned English, picked up a little French, won an Iron Cross and ended the War in a hospital, gassed...
...People (by Elmer Rice, producer) is a potent squawk in 20 scenes with 44 characters against U. S. capitalism. In a welter of interrelated stories and typical industrial abuses, William Davis is a contented iron works foreman with a refined school teacher daughter about to marry a genteel bank clerk, and a bright son entering the State University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins...
...their early tours the Jubilee Singers earned $150,000 with which Jubilee Hall was built to replace the Union barracks. As the singers went on advertising the University, Fisk equipment grew until the first stack of spelling books and New Testaments, bought by selling for old iron the rusty handcuffs from Nashville's slavepens, became a legend. Now there are 25 well-equipped campus buildings at Fisk (not counting the nearby grocery store where students go to eat fried fish). Academically it has Class A rating...
...only when the headmaster has been partially forgotten can the education be accorded his significance. For thirty years, Doctor Stearns has labored to make easier the difficult step between school and college. So-called progressives find much to criticize in the result; for there remains considerable old-fashioned iron in the Andover scholastic methods. Through all the fads and "isms" that have swept through America's educational system, Doctor Stearns has clung to the belief that the preparatory school is the place where a youthful mind must be toughened by obstacles and provided, if possible, with the rudimentary tools...
Professor Piccard has "invented a rocket" which he calculates can travel through the stratosphere at five kilometers a second. Five kilometers a second is the speed at which sound travels through solid iron and 15 times the speed at which sound travels through air. The Piccard rocket, when perfected, he figures should carry mail and passengers across the Atlantic in less than a half-hour...