Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house in a rage. He returns a little later, a little cooler, only to find his wife practicing well-remembered tricks with her old partner. At that there is an explosion. When the smoke clears away you see the great singer raucously peddling fruit, the dumb acrobat swinging iron girders, and the mother putting on a circus act with her acrobatic twins...
Rivalry between the two active house units is assuming an extraordinary aspect. Not to be outdone by "the bells of Lowell," Dunster House is striving to decorate itself wherever a bare surface will support new ornamentation. Wrought iron fences, heavily sculptured panelling, and a Greek vase on the Gatepost are now deemed insufficient. Large emblazoned shields have recently been erected to the growing wonder of the students...
Other prophets heard during the week were bullish. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., lean president of General Motors Corp. said: "I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year." Iron Age (75 years old last week) reported a "change of sentiment in the steel industry." The first quarter of 1931 was seen as the likely end of the decline in business by Harvard Economic Society...
...Hans Fischer achieved his first international fame two years ago. After 17 years of quiet research in his laboratory at Munich, he announced that he had succeeded in synthesizing hematin, the red iron core which carries oxygen into the blood (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). He used pyrrol, a constituent of the common cure-all known as bone oil, subjected the colorless liquid to a complicated chemical treatment to obtain his results. The synthetic product he called hematine. Or ganic chemists are now experimenting with the substance, using it upon animals to de termine how doctors may employ it to cure...
...powder business at the time for all the family"), he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was an able athlete (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ib. at the age of 19). Beginning as a miner in Kentucky, he rose to be president and manager of several coal, iron & steel companies (among them Johnson Co., which became Lorain Steel Co., now a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp.). Later he developed many street railway lines. Having acquired a large fortune, he went to Wilmington, Del. intending to retire at the age of 37. With his cousins Pierre Samuel...