Word: steeling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poems on Helen of Troy (to whose tragedy Mr. Benet adds a tender episode), there are choruses comparable for phrase and lilt and a certain lyrical iridescence to Swinburne's "Atalanta." Where Swinburne chimes fragile silver, Mr. Benet hammers out hard steel. He revels in the resonant and triumphant metres which go ringing at full gallop as of horses who "dance . . . to the music their own hoofs make...
...Fortunately many such men are now showing a more tolerant spirit, often meeting the workers to discuss the conditions under which they work and occasionally permitting them to have a part in the management. That element among the employers that is typified by Mr. Gary of the United States Steel Corporation is disappearing, and the element represented by Mr. Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel is becoming more prominent...
...victory of the Oxford-Cambridge cross-country racers over Cornell at Rochampton, 29 points to 25, is a reminder (not especially needed) that the British Empire yet furnishes rivals worthy our best sporting steel. Eight months ago an English team at the University of Pennsylvania won the two-mile relay in the world's record time. The Empire was our runner-up in the Olympic games. We won the Davis Cup, but we must remember that out of the fifteen contestants for it the Australasians have won six times, the British five, and American four. Next June we will send...
...wind and endurance for the supreme test of the "big game" or the "big race" which the college athlete endures. Learning the law is learning a method of attack and training the intellectual muscles until they are tough as whip cord, spring with the resilience of fine-tempered steel and have the endurance and persistency of a cow pony...
...considerable extent in other cities, dependent almost wholly on the situation of a "fight to the finish" between union labor on one side and on the other an organization which is doing its best to get rid of an exclusively unionized labor. We have blamed, with reason, the Bethlehem Steel Company for seeking to restrict the sale of its steel to "open shop" builders, but it must be acknowledged that the offence of these manufacturers is mild compared with that of labor union officials who manage to unionize establishments merely in order that they may make great fortunes in bribes...