Word: rust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spurs and six-guns of long-dead badmen are still to be kicked up from the sand and cactus of the Colorado plains. Buffalo skulls and stage-coach axles still bleach and rust in forgotten gulches of the Rocky Mountain foothills. But the West is "civilized," has been for some time, and with it Colorado. The funicular up Pike's Peak is 35 years old and for 21 years there has been a searchlight on the summit. The $2,500,000 State Capitol was finished way back in 1895. Denver still smelts lead for bullets and other useful articles...
...winding roads that run through the smiling hills near Dover, N. J., were populated with sadness; no laughter broke through the stillness; even the pudgy children, bronzed as rust, trotted, wondrously solemn, beside their stolid Slavic folk. Short-statured women, sunburned, stocky men, trudged ploddingly, bewilderedly, home. Whispers. Tears. Vague muddle...
...opened last week really begins in the history of the metal. Aluminum, or aluminium as it is scientifically known, is a comparatively common element. It makes up about 7.28% of the earth (exclusive of the unknown interior).* It is exceedingly useful because it is malleable (not brittle), does not rust and only slightly tarnishes, and is very light, only about a third as heavy as iron. None the less it was not really isolated as a metal until 1828, the reason being that it is comparatively difficult to separate from the other elements with which it is commonly compounded...
...judges were Mr. Carl Rust Parker, F.A.S.L.A., of the Olmstead Office, for many years member of the Examining Board of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and Mr. Guy Hunter Lee '16, M.L.A. '21, former leader of the Harvard Reconstruction Unit in France, Professor J. S. Pray '95, Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture, Professor H. V. Hubbard '97. Professor of Landscape Architecture, and Mr. B. W. Pond '11, Secretary of the American Society of Landscape Architects, President of its Boston Chapter, and also a member of the staff of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture...
...Albert Samuel Inkpin, 41, secretary of the British Communist party ; William Charles Rust, 22, secretary of the Young Communists' League; Harry Pollit, 30 boiler maker and member of the executive board of the Communist Internationale; William Gallacher, 43, brass finisher; and Walter Hannington, 30, engineer. † John Ross Campbell, Editor of the Workers' Weekly; Arthur McManus, head of the colonial department of the Communist Party; John Thomas Murphy, head of its political bureau ; Robert Page Arnot, director of the Labor Research Department; E. W. Cant, Communist organizer; Thomas W. Wintringham, journalist; Thomas Bell, engineer...