Word: steeling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nowhere in all the history of crimes and cruelties is there anything for cold-blooded genius in the invention of torment?nowhere is there anything to compare with that little machine of Hell on earth, the steel trap. The steel trap has no place in anything even remotely describing itself as civilization and to abolish it we shall rely upon the modern woman...
Early one bright, cold morning, the two principals and their seconds met for combat. The two men stripped, whipped out their swords, stood face to face. There was a sharp "Engages!" and the two pieces of steel began to grind and clash. The contest was short. M. Massard, the challenger, flicked a small wound in the sword hand of his opponent. Three doctors fled into the field, declared the wound slight, but Gaudin could not continue. Honor was satisfied...
Although the "steel barometer" has failed to register a decline so far, it is still possible that somebody may be holding a match under it. Elsewhere in business, the earmarks of a new downward "trend" seem plainly apparent. Not only have commodity prices as a whole registered their first decline for many months, but in the speculative markets the drop has been especially severe. Even the much-heralded intention to advance steel prices has apparently been abandoned. Thus it may be that the recent advance of the New York Reserve rediscount rate will mark a "turn" in business from expansion...
Increases were: lumber (20%), coal (40%), petroleum (18%), martensite † (80%), iron ore (112%), copper (60%), manganese (45%), textiles (35%-50%), flax fabric (35%), matches (30%), rolled iron (50%), pig iron (122%), steel (35%), hides (3%), raw sugar (40%), cotton crop (800% within a two-year period...
...earthquake (TIME, Mar. 9, SCIENCE) to which the headline so meagrely referred. There was the proud tower of the Woolworth Building cracking like a piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen lamp turned his eyes, glazed with horror, upon the erstwhile screaming woman. They looked...