Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among characteristic U. S. luxuries are jail cell doors of iron or steel bars. Considered fantastically extravagant abroad, these permit the U. S. jailbird to see out, give him a feeling of proximity to other human beings as they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid, cheap, have a peephole closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week...
...days after he became Chancellor, Herr Hitler said: "The National Government, with iron will and tenacious perseverance, will realize the following plan: Within four years the German farmer must be relieved from impoverishment! [Cheers'] Within four years unemployment must be definitely overcome! [Cheers') Within four years conditions must be established for prosperity in other branches of industry! [Cheers...
French critics have hailed Charles Braibant for his "wholesome" qualities, have welcomed The Iron Mother because it is a "change" from the pathological novel of Proustian introspection. Yet, for all its vivid phrases, for all its objectivity, for all its wry humor, The Iron Mother welters in a family situation which can hardly be called wholesome and which should be pathological enough to suit even the most exacting of Freudians...
...IRON MOTHER-Charles Braibant -Harper...
...states, however, that the iron alloy is a different kind of solution from the aluminum and lead alloys, and that the difference in solution structure might explain the conduct of the iron alloy under pressure...