Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Health, But that did not settle the question about keeping healthy & wise. Professor Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University settled that point. Babies are born with sufficient iron and copper in their blood and livers to keep going for quite a while. But calcium, which babies need for bones, they must get from mother's or a cow's milk. If a baby takes too much calcium from its mother. she must replenish her supply by eating calcium-bearing foods. Otherwise her teeth may decay, her bones ache, her resistance to disease decline. Thus calcium (lime) is the mineral which...
There was a clatter of iron hooves over the London cobbles, a flutter of knightly plumes under the royal gates, and the commoners of London, "the poor mechanicals" of the poet, ran out from their shops and gaped down the street at Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex come from the Irish bogs to make his peace with Elizabeth. The noble earl's visit was impelled more by ardor than discretion, so the old chronicle hath it, for it was early morning and the queen was not in the parlor. Elizabeth received her favorite coldly, and Essex retired...
Twenty million tons of iron and steel rust out of use each year. Electrolytic iron resists corrosion, but is difficult to make. Chromium alloyed with iron makes "rustless iron." "Stainless" steel contains iron, carbon and chromium. But for a multitude of uses a coating over the iron or steel objects suffices. Paint serves well in many places, as does zinc (galvanizing), tin, copper, lead, concrete. Nickel does not tarnish readily, resists corrosion, has high lustre, is hard, and has long been used to plate iron & steel. In all those qualities chromium surpasses nickel. When Professor Fink and others showed...
...there that [Dr. Irving] Langmuir and I can play around. He stands between us and the demands that we do something practical." Dr. Whitney is now 64, and worn out. Apart from his executive duties he has done research on his own account-solubility, colloids, suspensions, corrosion of iron, chromium sulphate compounds. His latest work has been on radiothermy, raising the temperature of the body by high frequency waves. Radiothermy is now being used, in preference to malaria, to create the artificial fever which makes paretics at least temporarily clear-minded. Two years ago Dr. Whitney suffered a nervous breakdown...
Tourists who go to Vienna nowadays may pay a few schillings and wander fairly freely through the gloomy Imperial Palace. They may gaze to their heart's content at the iron cot on which old Franz Josef slept, at the basin in which ample Maria Theresa bathed. But one wing in the Hofburg is barred to them. Tourists are not allowed to prowl through the rooms which belonged to Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef's son who died mysteriously at his hunting lodge at Mayerling. Rudolf's rooms have not been preserved as a museum for tragic memories...