Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Josef Stalin cracked down on Russia's noisy modernist composers. He accused them of "bourgeois degeneracy," confiscated their compositions, told them to stop imitating the sound of Soviet steel mills and cement-mixers, get themselves a few singable tunes. Since then, presumably, the party line in musical Russia has been all nightingale and lark. But because the machinery of the Soviet Musical Bureau (which owns all manuscripts, controls all performance rights) needs oil in its joints, not many examples of this New Musical Policy have been heard outside Russia...
...onetime star has turned promoter of indoor baseball. President of the league (at $7,500 a year) is 51-year-old Tris Speaker, Cleveland's baseball Immortal who has spent the past nine years as a radio sportcaster, Hollywood actor, minor-league club owner, wholesale liquor dealer and steel salesman. Managing the Cleveland club is another onetime Indian, baldpate Bill Wambsganss, only baseballer ever to make an unassisted triple play in a World Series (against the Dodgers...
...Recently U. S. Steel turned up in the black (by 47? a share) for the first time since 1937. By last week's end Steel common had fallen almost five points, stood at 70¼ compared to its September high...
...When Bethlehem Steel, No. 1 U. S. war baby, reported nine-months earnings of $1.89 a share, as against a $1.26 deficit last year, its stock fell two points. Last week it sold at 85, down 15 points from its war-boom high...
...course of these workouts candidates learn of more ways to throw a medicine ball than they had previously thought remotely conceivable, practice simulating pointer dogs, folding jackknives, and steel springs, contortions which the gray-haired director executes with the greatest ease, while his younger and potentially better adapted charges resemble octogenarians when attempting to accomplish the same maneuvers...