Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manganese is an essential ingredient in steel manufacture. World's annual demand now runs to about 1,750,000 tons of the ore. The Caucasian deposit acquired by Harriman is much the largest known and is estimated to contain about 70,000,000 tons...
...observation of drift and ground speed. A powerful gale sprang from the northeast, forced them west, cost them heavily in priceless gasoline. Two hours later, they outran the fog, came out above a solid white of the polar ice, ridged, hummocked, corrugated like a sheet of twisted steel...
...lead, in his hands a bow cut from the sturdy yew trees of California. The bow string was the length of the old cloth yard-27½ in., and it took 80 pounds of pulling power, and much skill to draw one of the 5½ -ft. steel-tipped arrows, also of yew, to the head of the bow. It was a clumsy thing, this bow, difficult to keep clear of the jungle undergrowth, not a thing to discharge instantaneous death in a second into a springing leopard. The leopard was a good 100 ft. away. It was a long...
...defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...
Siege offers one of those rare rewards of persistent cinema attendance. It takes a psychological situation and preserves its drama. Usually drama in the cinema is a matter of steel and movement. Siege is concerned simply with the difficulties of a young bride whose vivacity outlaws her in a stern and antiquated household. The quiet tyranny of Mary Alden as the household head is conspicuously good. Svend Gade's direction is a minor miracle of imaginative and penetrating treatment...