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Word: steele (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instruments at sea, flying them high into the sky with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Steinmetz Lecture | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Boston, Mass., the Boston Bruins, professional hockey team, met the Ottawa Senators, professional hockey team, in the opening game of a series to determine which team should possess the Stanley Cup, emblematic of world's championship. Sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick as elusive puck. The game was marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. Overtime failed to develop more than a scoreless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rough | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...nights later the same teams met in Boston. Sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck. The game was marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. Ottawa triumphed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rough | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...nights later the same teams met in Ottawa. Sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck. The game was marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. Overtime developed merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rough | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Martin Henderson (Fritz Williams), eagle of finance, from his steel cleft high above Wall Street's sidewalk, connives cold-blooded revolution in Mexico. His motive: to irritate the U. S. into intervention, thus establish law, order, prosperity for his Spread Eagle oil fields. By financing a professional revolutionary, Henderson buys a political crisis. But to make the U. S. public see red, something more personal than oil is needed. Luck has it that Henderson's daughter, Lois (Brenda Bond) introduces to her potent father one Charles Parkman, boy in search of a job, also son of a onetime president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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