Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Mr. Healy said about Mr. Lihme & family during the next hour or so was not complimentary, and now, in his leaping stage, his eye was caught by the Lihme chandelier, a massy affair of wrought metal and crystals...
...Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y. Last week, he escaped death because he wore a metal and fibre helmet. He was riding the capricious two-year-old colt, Silenus, which bolted through a temporary fence and crashed in a heap against a permanent fence at Belmont Park. While struggling to crawl out from under Silenus, Jockey McAtee received a swift kick in the helmet, was knocked...
...ship will be all-metal, have enormous wings, house passengers free from noise and wind. Said Mr. Atwood: "Our plans have passed the tests of the most eminent of aviation engineers. There will be cabins and dining-room and promenade deck and lounges and everything necessary to safe and comfortable transport across the ocean...
...absorbed Manhattan audience of 600 musicians, engineers, makers of musical instruments, this famed sound scientist, and opponent of the Einstein theory showed how the increased density of metal improves the tone of the instrument, talked on the development of perfect tone. From the lecture room his listeners followed him to the temporary rooms of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts. There they saw his collection of 711 Chinese flutes of jades and ivory flutes carved from human bones, of glass, of an eagle's wing, a ram's horn...
Clifford Hoffman, counted on by his University of Southern California mates to place first in both the shot and discus, came second to Gerken, California captain in the former event, but did over 147 feet with the metal plate to lead the field...