Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a daguerreotype, a silver-plated copper plate, scrupulously clean, was subjected to the vapor from iodine until it turned a golden orange color. With the subject's neck held rigidly in an iron clamp the plate was exposed in a camera for from three to 30 minutes, developed by holding it over a cup of hot mercury, fixed by dipping in a mixture of hyposulphite of soda and gold chloride. Finger marks and heat ruin the image of a daguerreotype...
...whirl in commodities, important indices of trade failed to reveal any fundamental change-of-trend last week. But since business has usually revived after a rise in commodities, many a businessman was cheerful, prone to look ahead a month or so rather than to express dismay over current figures. Iron Age reported steel operations up to 30% of capacity after being at 29% capacity the week before. Steelmen were encouraged by the prospects of a busy automobile industry for the rest of the year, anxiously awaited the results of the year-end rail buying by the railroads. Buying by farm...
...notable exception occurred in 1885 when the builders of the Canadian Pacific decided that a golden spike would be absurd after the vyay they had worked to save money, that a good iron spike for the last would do as well as one did for the first...
...every house, as intimate as the Christopher Wren room in Sanborn, but much larger, and containing every conceivable book for pleasurable perusal or routine research. We liked the tall-ceilinged fire-lit library in Eliot House, and the clamant Crimson library in Standish, and the goldleaf and wrought iron of Adams...
...Andy Blair and his childless wife Philly were as poor as their neighbors, maybe poorer. So when Andy, chopping at a stump of firewood, struck an iron pot, he was sure it was a pot of gold. For once Andy w was right: the pot held over $1,900 in coin, and two pearls. At first the old couple wanted to run and tell everybody, then they thought better of it. They hid the treasure in the house, invited the neighbors to a surprise party. By the time the night of the party came they had worried so much about...