Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this one, with magnificent wings, a beard, three sets of horns and five legs. But an unmistakable bull it is. Even as U. S. tycoons of a past generation put cast-iron animals on their lawns as symbols of wealth and security, so King Sargon II of Assyria had this stone bull-and another one just like it-placed at the gates of his palace 2,600 years ago to celebrate his conquests and, superstitiously, to ward off evil spirits. Dr. Breasted's sharp...
...years that followed 1915 the Wabash was far from the only major railroad in trouble. This period included government operation under William Gibbs McAdoo. In these years the following carriers went into receivership: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Western Pacific; International & Great Northern; Missouri, Kansas & Texas; Missouri Pacific ; St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern; Baltimore & Maine; Texas & Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande...
...Iron Age New York City...
Excited Japanese devoured the captions, cursed Statesman Stimson by the million, spat by the thousand upon his inoffensive likeness. Even at the Japanese Foreign Office, where velvet politeness is an iron rule, Press Spokesman Shiratori Toshio snapped: "If a man in Mr. Stimson's position loses his head at such a critical moment in the affairs of Japan, the consequences would be very grave indeed. . . . Mr. Stimson says the Japanese Army in Manchuria 'ran amuck.' This is considered a very bold statement indeed...
...most typical great men England ever produced, Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) survives "as little more than the instrument of a single victory and the gruff hero of a dozen anecdotes." Biographer Guedalla, in 536 coruscating pages, has rubbed the rust off the Iron Duke, polished him till he shines...