Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When with a ringing of bells, a great steel worm of a train slid into the Union Station at Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge descended the car steps to the porter's rubber cushioned stool, there were three smiling faces looking up at them from the platform. There was the chubby face of the Secretary of Commerce; there was the long, lean face of the Secretary of Agriculture smiling from beneath its domed forehead; and there were the stone-chiseled features of the Secretary of State. He too smiled as he waited there, his head thrust forward over...
...They went out on the roof to search and a fusillade of shots fell about them from a roof across the streets. Forty shots were fired but no one was hurt. In a safe below they found ten new automatics, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and six steel vests. Henry Moy, his brother Frank and other prominent On Leongs stood across the street watching the proceedings...
That night Que Yee, a Hip Sing, was met by three pellets of steel as he walked upstairs in his house. He rolled to the bottom and died. Wong Hong, a young Hip Sing gunman, was entering his lodging house. A hatchet came down on his head from behind and his brains were crushed. They found a revolver lashed inside his vest...
...wrenching, a crunching, a howling of steel, and "Everyone beat it" cried one of the 15. Colonel Hall, as he sprang to the ladder, scrambled up. Fourteen men were left...
...great note, put matters in motion with a resume of the modern description of Earth's age and structure. Age?"definitely between one and 10 billion years" as estimated by timing the decomposition of uranium and other radioactive elements. Structure?a hades-hot metallic core, rigid as steel; then an envelope of viscous material, kept fluid by enormous pressure, not heat conducting, having faint tides, upon which the earth's ,crust "floats". The elasticity of the envelope which is 60 miles beneath the crust, and the core's rigidity, had been deduced from studying waves of force in earthquake shocks...