Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt was under heavy obligation to produce results at home. Well over 500 trade codes were reported in the making. Milliners, sugar men, baby-carriage dealers, jewelers, druggists, furniture retailers, lumbermen, clothing-makers, printers, milk evaporators, cleaners & dyers, waste-material dealers, paper men, silk manufacturers, farm-implement makers, scrap-iron men, tent makers, rabbit furriers, undertakers, oilmen, pretzel bakers & benders, underwear men, restaurateurs, coal men, steel men-all were in the throes of codification...
...Arthur. That fatal branch, the great Imperial Russian Minister, Count Witte, later admitted, largely provoked the Russo-Japanese war. Japan, when she had whipped the Russians, seized their southern branch from Port Arthur as far up as Changchun (140 miles below Harbin) and made it her own great, imperial iron road, the Japanese South Manchuria Railway...
...14th. He pitched out, sank his putt for a birdie and ended the first 18 holes still three strokes up. In the afternoon, Wood took 39 to the turn as he had done in the morning. At the 33rd, he was still five strokes behind. Shute, his long iron shots travelling to the greens as though they were on wires, ran off the last three holes in par, finished with 149 to Wood's 154. Said he when he received the championship Cup from the Earl of Lindsay: "I'm still too excited to think...
...knew that young Densmore Shute was an able player in good weather also. He tied Gene Sarazen for third place in the U. S. Open on a hot June day in 1929. Now 28, medium-sized, dark-haired, lightly built and generally considered to have more finesse with his iron clubs than any other professional except Tommy Armour, Shute by his victory last week made it seem that he was the likeliest of the younger professionals to acquire the prestige which has been shared for the last decade by Sarazen and Hagen...
...time the Yard must have presented a shabby appearance, with an untidy wood-pile of mammoth dimensions where University Hall now stands. The impressive simplicity of University Hall's granite front is an innovation of the last 90 years, for previous to that it was hidden by a massive iron portico of indescribable ugliness. The rabbit warrens in the cellars of this building which minor University officials call their offices owe all their sunlight and air to the removal of this porch. In the middle of the last century this basement was the College Commons, and here a caterer served...