Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of British Justices of the Peace seated uncomfortably on folding chairs. He then unpacked a stethoscope and a bottle of antiseptic from his medical case. Meanwhile, an assistant keeper had attached leather thongs to the three points of a six-foot wooden triangle, set up before an iron pillar...
...himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine, who pay the same man to be president of both companies, though they are completely independent." Genial King Christian, leaving all his Danish courtiers behind, will go to Iceland next June and try to act as much like an Icelander as possible, will open the festival celebrating the 1000th...
...Since archaic times man has known and used carbon, sulfur, gold and silver. He first used copper in Egypt about 4000 B. C. About 3500 B. C. he found iron, and, somewhat later, lead. The Chaldaeans used tin 3500 years...
Once there were two Scotchmen, or rather a Scotchman and a Scotch woman: now there is George C. MacKinnon. George has a nerve of iron when the returns are in gold or silver. He tells, among many stories of adventure for profit. of how he spent a morning in a cage of twenty tigers just to win a small bet. According to him these beasts had a manslaughter record which would send a gang of Chicago handiest to Sing for life. Among other things, having killed many into whose charge they had been put including one very beautiful and famous...
...medal named for him someday. A prolific inventor (gyrocompass, gyrostabilizer, airplane "Mecaviator," superpower searchlights, airway beacons), he holds over 400 patents, some 12 important awards and decorations. Last week, honoring his method of nondestructive detection of flaws in steel rails and bars, he was first to receive the American Iron & Steel Institute Medal, given by the Institute in memory of its late Founder-President Elbert Henry Gary...