Word: strays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manganese is used in small amounts by the copper, glass and dry-cell battery industries; but steel uses most of it; about 13 Ib. per ton. Its function in steelmaking is to collect the stray traces of sulfur which all carbon steels contain. The sulfur tends to combine with the iron to make iron sulfide, which collects in films among the crystals of hardening steel, prevents cohesion, makes it brittle, so that it cannot be forged and rolled. Manganese takes the sulfur away from the iron and the manganous sulfide which is formed collects in small globules throughout the metal...
...French marched to battle in retreat-like confusion. "A horse collapsed and could not rise again; a tank passed over him. The heavy caterpillar treads cut into his living flesh. Stray cows . . . bellowing with pain .. . ran amidst the tanks, trucks, and cannon. Everybody was looking for everybody else. . . . And no one knew where he was going...
...rescue men said unexpectedly that he had seen a rabbit on the embankment. 'There,' said the small man, 'how they do stray...
...when 173 of America 5 golfing Big Shots besieged Fort Worth, they found its Colonial Club as tough a layout as they had ever seen. A par 70 course, its narrow fairways are bordered by groves of pecan trees, swamps, ravines and the chocolate-colored Trinity River that meanders stray-catlike over the course. Its tough Bermuda grass was an annoying novelty to many. And two days of rain had brought out chiggers-the pesky little red bugs that burrow into human flesh and start an itch worse than a mosquito bite...
Like all Harvard buildings, the Bio Lab has picked up a few stray or temporary occupants whose tenure now seems permanent. In the basement, sandwiched between cold storage rooms and fish tanks, the Harvard Film Service produces motion pictures for the school of education and records programs of the undergraduate Radio Workshop. In a sunny first floor room the Cambridge Red Cross rolls bandages for Britain, and upstairs the federal government's Department of Interior maintains a research headquarters for its Fish and Wild Life Service. Weekending in Maine and splitting their Cambridge days between laboratories and fishing boats...