Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marching By musically relates how first the Austrians and then the Russians took and retook Lemberg in the stirring days of 1915. During one of these swaps a handsome young Austrian (Guy Robertson) is wounded and left behind. Iron enters poor disabled Mr. Robertson's soul when he notices the lecherous glances with which the base Russian colonel is denuding Actress Desiree Tabor, a soprano with whom Mr. Robertson is in love. She is an Austrian countess. Somewhere during this part of the proceedings a file of Muscovites tramp in, begin singing "Light up! Take out your pipe...
...scowling. He received his first injury in Australia, where he was born in 1888. A snake bit his finger and his brother chopped it off. In most professional sports there is some character whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called an "iron man." NcNamara has been the iron man of bicycle riders for 15 years. Grown somewhat rusty with age, he is still able to keep up with the field when teamed with a good sprinter. He enjoys six-day races, voiced no intention of retiring after completing his 77th last week...
...orders to 5,200 firms for such items as $47,000,000 worth of steel, $48,000,000 worth of body-trimming material, $20,006,000 worth of tires, $10,000,000 worth of glass, $4,800,000 worth of paint and lacquer, $4,600,000 worth of grey iron, $4,000,000 worth of lumber. The Ford production will benefit transportation companies by some $100,000,000 to pay for freight carried by 236,000 inbound and 228,000 outbound cars...
...examples of the metallic type which are often so large that they are not oxidized by the time they penetrate the earth's layer of atmosphere. The meteorite discovered by Admiral Peary on his North Pole Expedition in 1909 is of the metallic type, composed of 95 per cent iron and a small amount of nickel. The Tent. as it is called because of its peculiar shape, weighs over 36 tons. A celestial visitor almost twice as large has been dug out of a hole in South Africa. Although expeditions have been trying to discover some fragments of the object...
...have reached an impasse, but Wing followed up with a brisk right to the chin, "They got big guns, hey? Twelve inches! Some big guns! We only got little guns, so." The washer of the linen demonstrated the size of the Chinese guns with his hands, leaving the iron to rest on a shirt, but his gesticulation were cut short by a thin wisp of smoke arising from the offended garment. Wing seemed in the best of spirits after this demonstration of his ironing ability, and went on to observe, "We're going to build airplanes, a thousand airplanes...