Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Owen Mahoney Jr., latest winner, was born in Dallas 24 years ago, graduated from Southern Methodist University before going to Yale. Twice he has won prizes for the Beaux Arts Ball program cover. His winning canvas is entitled Sunday Afternoon. It shows a U. S. family of the Iron Stag era grouped round a little ornamental fountain on a croquet lawn. The models this time have all their clothes on. The painting has considerably more humor than most Prix de Rome projects. But there remain the same studio attitudes of the figures, the same theatrical treatment of background. Critics...
Hopak from "The Fair of Sorotchinsk" by Moussorgaky, Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla" by Glinka, Hymn to the Sun from "Le Coq d'Or" by Rimsky-Korsakov, Soviet Iron Foundry by Mossolov...
...Alabama!" he heffled in conclusion. "I'd give my life to protect its good name and honor. I'm fighting for the factory girls . . . the farmers . . . the schoolteachers . . . and the boys who go down into the bowels of the earth to dig for coal and iron. . . . I'll fight...
...about this keystone of their hermetic arts. One compound of mercury (calomel, mercurous chloride) is a useful purge. Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (TIME, March 7). Quicksilver helped Joseph Priestley discover oxygen (1/74) and thus start Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron and platinum are among the few exceptions). Besides its familiar uses- gold and silver amalgams to fill teeth; filling for thermometers and ultraviolet ray lamps-it goes into explosives and drugs. Recently it has been used to run electro-turbines at Hartford and Schenectady (TIME, July 8, 1929). The world...
...champion in 1907, 1908, 1912, 1913, U. S. open champion in 1915, sold his seat on the New York Cotton Exchange. With more time for golf, he found his game almost as good as of old, when he was famed for his putting and for playing a rusty old iron off the tee. Last week, like Bobby Jones and George Von Elm, Golfer Travers turned businessman golfer, announced himself willing to play exhibition matches for money but not to hire out as a professional teacher. His first exhibition, and first important match since his elimination in the first round...