Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work*) of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey's finds in Kenya Colony 200 miles from the Oldoway gorge. The human fossils which Mr. Leakey has-he transported one in its aboriginal mold to London-are with little question pleistocene. They were built and buried like Oldoway. One had an iron ring around a toe bone. The ring seems a preposterous anachronism...
...puts against pistons in the cylinders is presumably less than the pressure upon things deep within the earth. Yet the man-made pressure changes the nature of elements. Thirty-nine of 48 pure metals which Professor Bridgman has squeezed become better conductors of electricity the greater the pressure. Iron becomes more rigid, glass less rigid. Zinc crystals compress seven times as much in one direction as in another. Most compressible of metals is cesium, presumably because its atom is highly complex. The greater the pressure on rocks, the greater the heat needed to melt them...
...present being put in between Kirkland House and the Master's Lodgings in preparation for a brick wall such as exists between the two units of Winthrop House. A gate will be installed to permit passage to the dining hall. The wall will be topped by an iron spiked fence...
...groups of meteorites recently studied appears to be below 3000 million years, which suggests a low age also for the stellar universe. Professor Paneth of Konigsberg has determined the age of a number of meteorites from their relative content of helium and radium; for 24 different iron meteorites he found values ranging from 100 to 2900 million years; for the Pultusk stone meteorites, the fall of which in 1868 has been well observed, he gives a preliminary value of 500 million years, which is probably a minimum value because of possible loss of helium in space and in our museums...
...been to explain simply that once men had seen these pictures they could only with great difficulty be induced to fight, that in consequence the possibility of war would be shoved ever more into the background, and, incidentally, that tax payers money would flow else-where than into the iron coffers of the War Department...