Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic Steel Corp. NLRB was right in demanding, and retiring Justice Joseph Buffington's Third Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong in denying permission to withdraw and revise the Republic record before the corporation appeal is heard...
Perhaps the most contradictory phrase of the 20th Century is "civilized warfare." Also, the idea that it is all right to shoot people with a steel-jacketed but not a dumdum bullet, to run them through with bayonets but not choke them with gas, to destroy their vessels with a battleship but not a submarine-all this is quite confusing to some uncomplicated minds. Lately the democracies have been trying to "humanize"' the wars in Spain and China, chiefly by urging the cessation of bombing behind the lines...
...Wheaton College project has been called the most important competition in U. S. architecture since the world-wide competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower in 1922. No such soaring mass of steel and stone, as the 36-story Tribune Building, the College's proposed art centre is nevertheless a sizable, $500,000 building, requiring a theatre to seat 500, a small auditorium for lectures, an art library, workshops, lecture rooms, studios, galleries, soundproof practice rooms for the music department...
...good steam. But in the U. S. pressure remained low. The latest Federal Reserve index of industrial production (for April) stood at 17, down two points from March. Statisticians guessed that by last week it had dropped another point or two. Other metals besides copper reflected this trend: Scrap steel and tin were off slightly for the week, lead was down to 4? a pound from...
...concentrators agree that the most pleasant way to cover the field was through tutorial guidance, but such men declared that a coordination tutor, not a laissez-faire man, was essential for this mode of study. Of these tutors Munn was recommended as a great individual teacher, and Steel was declared one of the best tutors in the field. Chandled and Sedgwick are good, but they have to be drawn out; Worcester is also good, but perhaps too bright. Morison and Rackcliffe were well recommended...