Word: blacksmith
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...experiments of Dr. Robert Marshall Stephan of the University of Illinois are borne out during the next few years, they may help to send the dentist's drill the way of blacksmith tools. Last week in Science, Dr. Stephan announced that he had found a neutralizer for tooth decay: urea...
Living artists (whose work comprised one-third of that shown) were mostly allowed to send in what they liked. Since most of the contemporary pictures were for sale ($400 to $12,000), many an artist submitted canvases-like Eugene Speicher's "Red" Moore, Blacksmith-which had kicked around unsold. But there were good new pictures, notably Reginald Marsh's swirling skating scene, Prometheus in Rockefeller Center...
...first half of Beecher's poem is made up of a series of portrait-sketches of his ancestral relatives-the blacksmith Beechers whose guns were held at present-arms when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown; Harriet Beecher Stowe, whom Lincoln called "the little lady who made the great war"; Henry Ward Beecher, who, on being handed his diploma at Amherst, was told by the college's president, "Well, this is the last we shall hear of you, Mr. Beecher"; Thomas K. Beecher, who chose to be a small-town preacher...
Eldest son of eight children in the family of a North Attleboro, Mass, blacksmith, Joe Martin began his career 50 years ago peddling papers. He turned down a scholarship at Dartmouth to go to work as a reporter, finally bought minority ownership of the North Attleboro Chronicle. With a sudden passion for politics, he got himself elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. Scotch-Irish, he talked a familiar language in Massachusetts. In 1925 he went to Congress, where he still perches -in appearance a typical small-town New England politician-scrupulous, honest, popular, potent...
Into the Detroit smithy of Wagon-maker August Charles Fruehauf (rhymes with blew-off) one day in 1915 walked a lumber dealer. To the blacksmith he posed a problem: Could he make a two-wheel cart to hitch behind a truck, haul lumber from yard to job? August thought he could. In no time his two-wheelers were delivering lumber all over Detroit, and a brand-new U. S. industry was born: the commercial trailer...