Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murdering her U. S. husband, after confessing that she shot him at the black end of a jealous quarrel (TIME, June 1, et ante). Last week large Texas Guinan got no French generosity whatever, was held at Havre in a room with barred windows, having as furniture three iron beds and one spittoon...
...function of this court . . . to consider the propriety or justness of the tax, to seek the motive or to criticize the public policy which prompted it. ... The power of taxation is fundamental. . . . The restriction that it shall not be exercised [unequally] does not compel the adoption of an iron rule of equal taxation nor prevent variety or differences in taxation. . . The fact that a statute discriminates in favor of a certain class does not make it arbitrary if the discrimination is founded upon a reasonable distinction. . . . The statute treats upon a similar basis all owners of chain stores. ... This...
...altogether insoluble. Professor Fink's accomplishment was to prevent the tungsten atom of his sodium tungstate molecule from going into another tungsten compound. The tungsten atom, thus kept free from changing relations, could be driven by an electric current and deposited on pieces of brass, copper, zinc, iron or carbon...
...Farrell had just made the most dramatic speech in the history of the American Iron and Steel Institute which, last week, gathered in public session in the ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan. Before him, in front row chairs, were sitting the presidents of other steel companies. Chairman of the meeting was Bethlehem's Charles Michael Schwab. He opened the proceedings with a magnificent piece of the optimism for which he is famed. Then Mr. Farrell got up and began "... I was thinking as I was sitting in the chair here whether I ought to talk about the desulphurization...
...present British practice is to make dull-colored things out of massive materials (such as cast iron), state quietly that they are British, therefore exceptionally well made, therefore necessarily higher priced, and to try to sell such goods in competition with bright-colored articles made of light materials (such as pressed steel) and sold by advertising not that they are American or German but that they are efficient, inexpensive. Only by realizing, as Edward of Wales profoundly does, the inert, self-satisfied attitude of most British manufacturers does one get the full flavor of H. R. H.'s words...