Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four inches and was slowly shrinking back to boyhood height. So brittle had his bones become that once when he bent to pick up a heavy weight he heard his spine crack. To bolster up his telescoped vertebrae doctors had tried three different leather corsets, three fabric corsets with iron stays, as well as heavy doses of Vitamin D, calcium, and ground eggshells. Dr. Meulengracht found that the patient had always had sufficient calcium in his diet, but that apparently little of it had been absorbed for many years. No textbook diagnosis explained his case...
Biggest surprises revealed last week were Allied's possession of 10.4% of the voting strength of American Light & Traction Co. and big holdings of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co., Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Allied gave no reason for any of these investments, but others noted that Allied buys much coke from Sloss-Shemeld, once sold much gas to American Light & Traction, was a heavy creditor of Virginia-Carolina Chemical when it went through reorganization, has large sales of chemicals to the two big glass makers...
...clarity which characterized his first eager draughts of knowledge at Professor Merriman's fount so many "eras" ago, that Waterloo was an inconsequential little place near Brussels where a great British man called Wellington, whose family name was Wellesley, and a German man named Blucher, first recipient of the Iron Cross, were fortunate enough to crush a great French man named Napoleon on June 18, 1815. Napoleon, who once held a commission as second lieutenant of artillery, had put on a great show, but St. Helena was ahead...
...clock on Tuesdays, in the Fogg Museum, and will be open to the public. The titles and dates are: The Role of History Today, Nov. 15. Architectural Inheritance: Early Renaissance and Late Baroque, Nov. 22. Architectural Inheritance: The Organization of the Outer Space, Nov. 29; New Potentialities: Iron the New Material, Dec. 6; New Potentialities: Architecture and Construction...
When Kansas Pipe Line & Gas Co. asked the Federal Power Commission fortnight ago for permission to build a 2,346-mile, $21,470,000 pipe line north through unpiped country to the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota, the National Bituminous Coal Commission, the United Mine Workers and various coal companies were swift to protest (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week the coal-men had new cause for worry. Also lured by the low-grade ores now lying undug at Mesabi for lack of cheap fuel to smelt them, Public Service Gas Co. of Montana asked FPC for permission to build...