Word: titan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel-mill is the flame of its furnace, and the power of the steel-mill is the heat of that flame. Cold and solid is steel to the layman. Hot and liquid it is to the steelworker, who is essentially one of dozens of cooks attending a titan's kettle of boiling muck. To him, it seems, the fiery mess is continually boiling over from the kettle's snouty spout. First, a trickle of fat sparks. Then the trickle turns to a stream, the stream reaches the circumference of a man's body -a stream of molten...
Mascali was most certainly the town which first would be obliterated. Here young peasant maids crossed themselves, paused a moment at the churches. Grandmothers, rich in ancient lore, retold tales. Enceladus, the Titan, was buried under Etna when he had dared to defy Zeus. Now and again he stirred in discomfort or anger. Hephaestus, god of fire and the metallic arts, had a smithy in Etna. He was fashioning terrible Olympian swords which his journeymen, the Cyclops, would deliver...
Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...
...scare heads said STINNES IN JAIL. That was only literally true. In a clean Berlin cell sat only Hugo Hermann Stinnes Jr.−not his late father STINNES, the titan who turned his coal and iron into fleets of ships, miles of factories, myriads of newspaper presses−all, all HIS (TIME, April 21, 1924). In those mighty days STINNES was the Despot of German industry and the Bogey Man of Europe...
Senator Mosconi is not, like his predecessor, a self made man or a titan of private finance. But he has served the new Feudal Duce with ready obedience as Prefect of Triest; and he was recently Royal Commissioner to the Venetian province ceded to Italy by Austria-Hungary, after the War-a province wherein the Mosconi were granted lands and certain Hungarian titles in the 16th Century...