Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldtime Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, 51, last year chosen by the Baseball Writers Association to join the 13 immortals in baseball's Hall of Fame, was discovered sharing the bill with "Sealo -Half Boy, Half Seal" and "Professor Heckler's Trained Flea Circus" in a Manhattan nickel museum...
...York City's scholarly, bald-domed Deputy Mayor Henry Hastings Curran was asked to help in a drive against baldness. He replied: "Why not be bald? Nobody ever made a nickel out of his hair. We cannot sell it,* or use it, or rent it, or put it in a show window. . . . Blessings on thee, baldhead...
...Flying Irishman, demanded and got 25? supper money. In the past three months, Aviator Corrigan has netted some $75,000 for acting and for writing an autobiography. Most parsimonious celebrity in Hollywood, he lives in a cheap hotel room, rides to work on a bus, lunches on a nickel ice-cream bar, spends his weekends relining the brakes on his ten-year...
...electricity and magnetism, discovered that when iron is hot it loses its magnetism. That was about 1600. Late in the 19th Century, Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, discovered that-although magnetism is gradually lost with rising temperature-an abrupt change occurs at a certain heat above which iron, nickel and cobalt cease in effect to be magnetic. This critical temperature chemists call the Curie point. These two discoveries underlie the operating principle of a new alloy announced last week in Instruments ("The Magazine of Measurement and Control...
...Columbus, Ohio) realized that if they could vary the ingredients of an alloy so as to set the Curie point at any desired temperature, they would have a highly sensitive substance for thermostatic control. Experimenting with several mixtures, they finally got what they wanted with an alloy of iron, nickel, chromium, silicon...