Word: steeling
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...Exact calculation shows that if we had five trillion cables of steel, each a foot in diameter and the steel capable of lifting thirty tons to the square inch of the cross section, this whole giant forest of steel cable would be stretched to the breaking point to hold the moon in its orbit about the earth. To hold the earth in its orbit about the sun would require an 11-inch cable of such steel on each square foot of hemispherical cross section of our globe, which practically would cover the earth's surface with such a forest...
Charles MacVeagh was born at West Chester, Pa., in 1860, and graduated from Harvard in 1881. Since 1883 he has been a lawyer in Manhattan; since 1901, General Solicitor of the U. S. Steel Corporation. He is a member of the law firm of which John W Davis is a member...
...royal house, galloping at the head of his company of Mercian Hussars fetlock deep in mud, dawn a country road, was caught in the open by advancing Wessex tanks, spitting death from their three-pound guns. He dismounted and stood grinning by the roadside in his steel helmet, crying: "I guess we're out of action!" even before the umpires wrote him down as "killed in the field of battle...
...cavalcade clattered into Cetinje, massed crowds lined the streets. Would they accept their new ruler, or would a shot, a knife, a bomb express the hatred of unwilling subjects for their lord? It was a ticklish moment. Steel-nerved, the smiling royalties awaited what was to come. Then suddenly their people knelt and poured forth the ancient greeting of Montenegrin subjects to a Montenegrin King: "Lo, thou art our heavenly sun, our wish, our happiness and our sharp sword...
...Entrants to New York University packed a Presbyterian Church to hear words from Elbert H. Gary, steel magnate and famed author of rules for a successful life. Business success was the burden of his message. Be agreeable, said he, approachable, popularize yourself and your business. "Adopt and apply the standards of propriety. . . . Honesty is best. . . . Abraham Lincoln. . . . Marshall Field. . . . J. Pierpont Morgan. . . . The average man likes to hear himself talk too much. It is well to let the other man talk half of the time...