Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invective for invective. As in the automobile labor fracas, he had two adversaries to beat into agreement: 1) the steelmasters headed by Eugene Grace (Bethlehem), William Archibald Irvin (U. S. Steel) and Leopold E. Block (Inland); and 2) Labormaster Michael Francis Tighe, president of Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, an A. F. of L. affiliate. The issue was simple: should the Amalgamated get control of all steel labor...
Until 1220 when Alchemist Albertus Magnus discovered arsenic, mankind knew only ten elements-carbon, sulphur, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, antimony and mercury. In the next 500 years alchemists discovered only bismuth, zinc and phosphorus. Then scientific chemistry began By 1900, before which time perspicacious Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyeff figured that there must be 92 elements on earth, no more, no less, chemists had isolated 83. Last discovery of a tangible element, which could be handled and weighed, occurred in 1926 when Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois found Element No. 61 among some rare earths...
...elements Professor Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...
...expert, technically sure. And more, it had escaped from the musty routine which stales most opera ballet. With equal spirit and understanding the Bolm dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane and tin to represent the dynamos, switches, flywheels and pistons which young Soviet Composer Alexander Mossolov had in mind when he wrote his noisy, hard driving Iron Foundry...
Here within the University the necessity for training similar to that offered by the newly organized Institution of Public Affairs is obvious. A graduate school of Public Affairs would fulfill the need or at least some provision for practical training tin government for students of political science must be provided. For it is they who will take over the reins of political control in the future and they must be trained for the responsibilities of leadership while young and free from partisan tutelage...