Word: cauldron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replied Playfair. The Prince instantly put his hand into the cauldron and ladled out some of the boiling lead without sustaining any injury. . . . It is a well-known scientific fact that the human hand, if perfectly cleansed, may be placed uninjured in lead boiling at white heat, the moisture of the skin protecting it under these conditions from any injury...
...inviting the State Labor Relations Broad to probe the University's conduct, the A.F. of L. has stirred Harvard's labor cauldron and heated its simmering waters to a new boiling point. But the charge that the University has fomented a company union and coerced employees into joining it is neither supported by the facts nor even thoroughly believed by the Federation itself...
Sandy-haired Donald Erb, a keen football fan, golfer and fisherman, last week made a diplomatic beginning. Said he: "I do not feel that I am stepping into a political cauldron...
...fall was no surprise to anybody one fact about it was startling to many. The last four weeks of the siege of Gijón and its final investiture were performed by Spanish troops alone. At least one foreign correspondent could not find a single cauldron of spaghetti among the rice pots of the Rightists, or a single Italian battalion among the advancing columns.* This was sound Franco tactics. Immediately after the Rightists' formal entries into Málaga, Bilbao, Santander (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), Italian officers went about making chests to the vast annoyance of their Spanish...
...plan signifies more than that. It strengthens the life of the college by filling the intellectual cauldron with more and varied victuals, grown by fresh environments with whose habits and ideas Harvard has had silght contact. It increases the scope of service which Harvard strives to render the country. Best of all, when the ultimate goal is reached, the scholarships will tend to develop the idea of American civilization, another of the President's pets, defined practically in the American History course started last summer for both interested students and the general public. This idea has as its purpose...