Word: rusting
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...gates of Soldiers Field, creaking through a summers rust, open today to admit an imarient crowd of football enthusiasts. An added week of anticipation together with interesting rumors of a team at practice have whetted a dangerously keen appetite for pigskin...
...sure to be encouraging to the citizen who has just seen the army reduced, buffeted, and shoved from the public eye as of no further importance. Without keen supervision from high officers, retrogression would have been unavoidable, At any peace-time period an army machine is extremely susceptible to rust; now, with numbers insufficient to maintain all barracks, and appropriations pared, prospects for efficiency are gloomy, General Pershing, however, attacks directly and offers remedies for the evils that beset all army while inactive--to prevent classification in take job he urges periodic changes of work; to prevent dependence on orders...
...Fogg, does not contain originals. Instead, casts have been taken from works of art such as the tympanum of the Cathedral of Strassburg, the entrance to the Cathedral of Freiburg, and the Berlin statue of the Great Elector. American artists have so deftly painted the casts that the very rust of the iron hinges, the polish of the bronze, the color of the stone, or the finish of the wood appear in the copy. There are also excellent electrotype reproductions of German work in gold and copies of paintings by Van Eyck, Durer, and Holbein. The whole collection, containing...
...student's needs, and is supervised so as to make the short time equivalent to much more than might be expected. Furthermore, the alternate exposure to theory and practice accelerates the process of learning much as the alternate exposure of iron to air and water accelerates the process of rust formation. Inasmuch as the former is in no way abbreviated and the latter is much extended, we are emphatic in declaring that this plan is more liberalizing than an unadulterated college programme...
...rust unburnished, not to shine...