Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allport. With a pessimism which delighted Germans, Attache Allport lugubriously observed that: 1) The number of German unemployed has increased during the past month from 671,000 to 1,030,000, making 70% more out-of-work than in 1927; and 2) "The five weeks shut down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocations in the iron, steel, coal and coke trades...
Although no definite statement to that effect was made, the general impression gathered at the dinner was that the open end of the Stadium will be filled in with steel stands to replace the much-discussed wood structure which has been in use during past years...
...nature prudent, our students docile. This pleases American parents who, when they entrust their progeny to others demand intellectual safety first and last. At Harvard the last symptom of vigorous eruptive life ceased with the death of the Medfacs. In such an atmosphere any new venture must steel itself to criticism. If a Radcliffe student suffers from morbid depression and a copy of McDougall is found on her shelves, her plight is put at the back door of the Psychological Clinic. It is known that abnormal psychology deals with the subject of hypnotism, and hypnotism has its parentage rooted...
...apparatus is divided has been the chief engineering problem. Pressures as high as 60 pounds per square inch or as low as those encountered at a height of five miles in the air can be obtained, but if a tiny hole for ventilation were afforded in the welded steel sides of the machine, the pressures inside and outside would immediately equalize. It is believed, however, that the difficulty has been solved by ventilating with gases already compressed or diluted...
...strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes ... the switch is pulled and the body sags back and relaxes, somewhat as a very tired man would do. ... Thus I have seen the tragedy enacted that has taken the lives of 114 men and one woman...