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A soft metal that survives by sacrificing itself, like a martyr for your engine.
the alloyTin, antimony, and copper, invented 1839 by Isaac Babbitt
self-sacrificeWears away to protect the harder shaft it cradles
the novelSinclair Lewis named a 1922 book after spineless conformity
medal earnedThat book helped win Lewis the Nobel Prize