Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metallurgy of the Graduate School of Engineering has been associated with the development of Metallography from its beginning. Dr. Albert Sauveur, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy, Emeritus, founded the science in America, and is now the dean of American Metallurgists. His treatise on "The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel" is the standard work of reference in its field...
...Chamber today a heavy majority of deputies are supporters of Premier George Tatarescu whose National Liberal Party is nearly as reactionary as the Iron Guard. Leader of the Opposition is the Peasant Party's active Ion Mihalache. Recently Premier Tatarescu resigned, King Carol asked M. Mihalache to try to form a Cabinet, and the Opposition leader refused with these hot words: "The King and M. Tatarescu were putting on a show-actually nothing was further from their intentions than to permit me to become Premier! The offer was made under impossible conditions." Thereupon M. Tatarescu was again named Premier...
Spinach, since it is unpleasant and therefore regarded as nutritious, was long over-rated as a food source of Vitamin A (good for eyes), Vitamin C (good against infectious diseases and scurvy), iron (good for blood) and calcium (good for bones). Hence it is sold fresh, frozen, sieved & canned, dried & powdered, and powdered & compressed into tablets. Discussion of its merits has gone so far that the American Medical Association's Council on Foods decided to rejudge this best studied of all edible leaves...
Last week the Council on Foods reported its matured findings thus: "Spinach may be regarded as a rich source of Vitamin A and as a contributor of Vitamin C,* iron and roughage to the diet. It is therefore a valuable food. [But] the iron is not well utilized by infants . . . [and] the feeding of spinach is of no value during early infancy as a source of calcium...
...young English Poet Wystan Hugh Auden got a publisher's advance for a trip to Iceland, "to write a book." Forthwith he asked young Irish Poet Louis MacNeice to come along. For several months the two poets toured the fishy, subArctic, volcanic island, sat around in its corrugated-iron farmhouses and dumpish hotels. When their time was up they had written a number of letters in prose and verse, collected a farrago of literate jottings about Iceland's history, culture, landscape, people. These, illustrated by photographs and stitched loosely together into a book, give an entertaining view...