Word: steeling
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...consideration permanence. The time is not far distant when the present concrete Stadium will be structurally unfit for use. When that time comes, there will arise the problem which can be met only by a new athletic plant. Whether the solution of the immediate difficulty employs concrete stands or steel, the temporary character of the settlement cannot be overlooked...
With this fact in mind, it is hard to see the wisdom of any step but the construction of steel stands. Concrete seats built now would represent a waste when the present Stadium shall be abandoned. As much room may be found in a set of steel stands closing the open end of the Stadium which will not impair the usefulness of the track and may be removed at will...
Dire and inexorable figures were released, last week, by Great Britain's aristocratic Minister of Labor, Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, LL.D. Though it must have galled him to do so, Sir Arthur was obliged to announce that more Britons are now out of work than at any time since the catastrophic General Strike...
Through angry muttering crowds of Monégasques, Prince Pierre proceeded resolutely to confer with members of the resigned National Council, and especially with soft-voiced, steel-eyed M. Léon, the young manager of Monte's famed Casino...
...strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes ... the switch is pulled and the body sags back and relaxes, somewhat as a very tired man would do. ... Thus I have seen the tragedy enacted that has taken the lives of 114 men and one woman...