Word: strength
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew stronger the hotter it was heated. Other metals become weaker with heat. Mr. Lowry's alloy has a tensile strength of 60,000 lbs. per sq. in. at 600° C. (1112° F.). At the same temperature chrome nickel steel's tensile strength is 30,000 lbs. per sq. in. Name given the new material is konel metal - from ko(balt) plus n(ick)el. Uses are for the filaments...
When Convict Burns was returned to Georgia, the wife who sent him there was implicitly condemned by the press for jealousy and revenge on the strength of Burns's story in the American. Last week Mrs. Burns, through Attorney Theodore William Miller of Chicago, filed libel suit against the American. Shrewd, she did not ask millions (as is usually the case ) for the destruction of an obscure reputation. She asked only $100,000, on the following charges: 1) aiding and abetting Convict Burns to "falsely and maliciously set himself up as a hero who was greatly wronged by his wife...
...world and has never forgotten her heritage. Although rebellious at times, and always inclined, to the experimental in education, she has ever found the old ways better in the fundamental principles. The University of Chicago, founded upon Western ideas, is still an overgrown child, conscious of its own physical strength but lacking in the historical background, traditions, and heritage of the older American schools...
...Victorian" is to be considered old fashioned, conservative, and even stagnant; to be classed as "medieval" implies unenlightenment, ignorance, and superstition. Yet "Victorian" and "medieval" also connote something fundamental and worth while in the shifting educational atmosphere of the present. Occasionally a term of derision becomes a symbol of strength and mental stability. Williams Alumni Bulletin
...Beethoven," begins virile Author Holland. "The whole being of a Beethoven ... is representative of a certain European epoch. . . . He is not the shepherd driving his flock before him; he is the bull marching at the head of his herd." Portrait at 30. "The mind of Beethoven has strength for its base. The musculature is powerful, the body athletic; we see the short stocky body with its great shoulders, the swarthy red face, tanned by sun and wind, the stiff black mane, the bushy eyebrows, the beard running up to the eyes, the broad and lofty forehead and cranium, 'like...