Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China. He introduced U. S. methods to Kyshtym in South Russia, making an oldtime estate of the Romanovs' into a mining centre where young Russian engineers soon pilgrimaged to complete their education. Italy engaged Engineer Hoover one summer to prospect in the Alps for the iron old Romans must have used for their swords.* Engineer Hoover and his brother, Theodore Jesse Hoover (who lives in Swanton, Calif.), perfected and installed a method for recovering zinc from the dumps of Australian lead and silver mines. In Burma, Engineer Hoover bought an abandoned mine and transformed it into...
...Awarded annually from a fund left by the late Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98), inventor of the Bessemer blast furnace for converting pig iron into steel...
...largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns the body to bring on a fever in cases of chronic diseases of the joints, obstinate suppuration, cardiac inflammation following chronic ulceration. Using the thermo-cauterizer, a scientific and delicate branding iron, he lays back the skin at the affected area and lightly sears the tissues underneath. The skin is then replaced in such a way as to allow drainage of pus and ultimate healing, thereby avoiding the scars which were the landmarks of former cauterization. The burning produces a high fever...
...such on the front page, to ignore so-and-so. U. S. correspondents called at her Paris apartment and she told them: "I am training my two sons to take over the property when I am too old. My policy as a newspaper publisher is based on the iron rules my husband followed: accurate and brightly presented news and pictures, a well printed paper and good and truthful advertising." The advertising may be truthful; it is certainly scarce as it is in all French papers, advertisingly backward...
...themselves," she continued. "The production must have catching numbers that are easily remembered, that people can him and carry along in their heads with out effort." Here she illustrated her point by humming a familiar part of "Sometimes I'm Happy," keeping time with the motions of her curling-iron...