Word: metallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always been customary in Italy to plug mailboxes with heavy metal fittings on each State occasion, since for half a century Italians have been prone to "mail a bomb" timed to explode just as its intended object is scheduled to pass the mailbox. To this precaution against an old Italian custom was added last week search of sewers and cellars for bombs, banishment from Rome for a few days or jailing of all suspect persons, and an arrangement whereby one or more police agents stood in the hall of every building past which the German Realmleader was driven. Such...
...Aubusson tapestry in the tea room, showing Washington's Mount Vernon in gay reds and blues, was soon so much burnt string. Firemen hurried aboard and hurried off again, intimidated by the explosions. In the morning all that remained of the Lafayette was a hot mass of twisted metal...
...Research is a wooden sailing vessel, nonmagnetic in every possible detail. Her hull is of teak; bolts, girders and anchor chain of bronze; rigging will be of nonmagnetic alloys. If her sailors wish, as all good sailormen do, to carry jack-knives, the knives must be of nonmagnetic metal...
...TRAVIS General Manager Eaton Metal Products Co. Denver, Colo...
...Italy in 1922-to which the answer was Italian Fascism. The moderate Premier, with his reputation for courage and firmness, quietly threw such a scare into even the Communists that their leaders last week began offering cooperation in the settlement of sit-down strikes which had paralyzed the French metal and aviation industries, vital sinews of defense...