Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police clubs and riot guns, but by the adjournment of a determined Congress. Gradually the veterans drifted back to the Anacostia mudflats. Leader Robertson called off his picket line. To continue their demonstration 60 of his men followed a lone flag-bearer down to the White House. Its iron gates were slammed shut. Police reserves trotted up. The demonstrations were forced off Pennsylvania Avenue, across Lafayette Park. A handful were arrested, all traffic was diverted. The White House was left a gleaming island within a circle of armed protection...
Power: 4) London Power Co.'s 80,000 kilowatt turbogenerator. 5) A 500-kilowatt radio tube, ten feet high, of steel & iron, no glass, made by England's Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Five times as powerful as the tubes used by biggest U. S. radio stations, it is not permanently sealed. The vacuum is maintained by oil pumps...
...actor, a little older than she, who can toss back the conversational ball faster than she can throw. The children are mutually entranced, and the rest of their story follows their odd vagaries in that trance. In spite of all their elders' iron efforts to separate them they, like bits of quicksilver, run together again. After a bevy of tender, and to their elders, scandalous escapades, during one of which they even manage to spend an innocent night together in an empty house; after Halcyon turns her hand to the drama, and Eden makes a name acting...
...said: "There is a condiment that is made in Durham, England. It bears the sign of a Durham bull's neck. Why not name your product Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco and adopt the whole bull as a trade-mark?" Tobaccoman Green immediately had a bull painted on sheet iron, mounted in front of his factory. The bull was heavy, clumsy, stolid and faced toward the east. After Founder Green died and Bull Durham tobacco was made by his more aggressive partner William T. Blackwell, the trade-mark bull became lighter, more graceful. A Liberty Bell was suspended from...
...sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom, not of porcelain which may crack or "craze," is of rough- surfaced iron, | in. thick, coated with enamel. A color may be baked on: T'ang red, clair de lune blue, Ming green, rose du Barry, orchid de Vincennes...