Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their annual meeting in Manhattan last week. With International Correspondence School instruction Ora E. Clark was, at 19, chief chemist for a small Pennsylvania blast furnace. At 35 and with several years of night schooling he is chief chemist, foreman and blast furnace superintendent of the Hamilton Coke & Iron Co. When the Hamilton furnaces operate (they have been cold since November), he runs them at remarkable efficiency. The thing iron-masters chiefly appreciate in his work is the instruction he gives them about coke. There is a best shape and condition of coke for melting iron from ores. Furnaceman Clark...
...angry sun beats down as though it might bubble the dust. Heat pours out of a merciless sky and heat swirls up from the scorching desert floor to meet it. Glimmering waves of heat dance out of the iron-hot Funeral Range and Panamint Mountain until it seems that the whole world lies waiting for one final and consuming igneous blast. . . . Then, on the waltzing surface of distant alkali, a lake of sweet cool waters appears. But the wise desert rat astride his fuzzy burro passes his tongue between cracked lips, smiles ironically and sets the portent down as Death...
...emotions of the New York Times correspondent when General Uyeda arrived to take over all Japanese land operations last week were notable. "General Uyeda," cabled the correspondent, "is an extremely attractive personality. He is of medium height, is slender, nearly bald and speaks no English. Under a straggling, iron grey mustache, he Hashes frequent smiles, revealing teeth rimmed with gold...
Herman Brix, world's champion 16-pound shot putter, and Coach Boyd Comstock, both of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, were visitors at Soldiers Field yesterday. Brix took a slight workout, putting the iron ball some 50 feet while Harvard weight men watched his form with interest. G. W. Kuehn '32 received an hour's special instruction from Comstock and the rugged Californian. Alfred Kidder '33 and M. J. Finlayson '32, giant Crimson weight throwers were watched with interest by the visitors...
...play first viola in the Los Angeles Philharmonic beside his grandfather, a 'cellist, and his uncle who was concertmaster. Grofe's family in-tended him for business so at 14 he ran away, became an elevator operator, then a truckman, a milkman, a heaver in an iron foundry, a pressman in a bookbindery. When he composed a march for an Elks' Reunion in Los Angeles his family relented, let him go in for music...