Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tries to elope with the sculptor she loves, the professor chains her to himself with the intangible but unbreakable bonds of gratitude. The strength of the frail proves so crushing that suicide alone can free the girl. Henry Herbert as the professor gave an insinuating study of the iron hand in the velvet glove. Helen Weir almost had the girl's role at her finger tips...
...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained "enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog." All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drug-store...
...John Fritz Medal was established in 1902 in honor of John Fritz, of Pittsburgh, pioneer iron and steel manufacturer, and is awarded annually for notable scientific or industrial achievement. Previous Fritz medallists include Bell, Marconi, General Goethals, Sir Robert Had-field (famed British engineer-capitalist) and Eugene Schneider (head of the great Creusot steel works of France...
Other American medals of importance in the field of the physical and engineering sciences are the Elliott Cresson Medal, of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and the Rumford Medal. In Britain there are also the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society, the Bessemer Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute, and the John Scott Medal...
...Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain is the donor of the Bessemer Medal; it will be presented to Professor Sauveur at the meeting of the Institute...