Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whacky. Once, when a little tiny boy, he had been taken by his parents to visit the county jail of his home town in Connecticut. It was a dark redbrick building, ivy-clad, and punctuated with tiny windows covered with lattice grille-work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded him of that old eighteenth century county jail. The steel book-racks, the dull concrete floors of the corridors served to heighten the impression that he was in prison, tortured by the Gods and Harvard college...
...still work in Widener--they had no stopped that yet. And after all, he was imprisoned voluntarily--no one compelled him to come to Harvard in the first place or to slave and moil and toil and strain his eyes in a library hemmed in by windows plated with steel. He had sentenced himself to this incarceration...
...trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep Japanese from crossing the Yellow River at Chengchow. In Shansi Province, to the West, Japanese columns were reportedly closing in on Linfeng, temporary provincial capital, which is some 60 miles north of the river...
...industries most specifically criticized by the Federal Government at the close of 1937 for having hastened the recession by "pricing themselves out of the market" were (1 steel and building materials. 2 automobiles and textiles, 3 meat packing and coal, 4 building material and farm implement, 5 air conditioning and transportation...
...Among the major evidences of the current business recession is the reduction of steel operations from the year's high of 92.3% of capacity to (1 eighty, 2 seventy-two, 3 fifty, 4 thirty-eight, 5 nineteen) percent of capacity...