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Word: irone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spain's diving Leftists presently clapped on iron censorship. The pirate crew, depending on their nationality, seemed destined to be either flaunted before the world or obliterated from the news as drastically as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Nine to Nyon | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Inventor of the abdominal hood is Bernard Liebel, 22, a summer student at Toronto's Banting (insulin) Institute. The torso hood is a Swedish device modified by Dr. Claude Ellis Forkner. the doctor who transported paralyzed Frederick B. Snite Jr. from Peiping to Chicago in a standard "iron lung" (TIME. June 14). This week, as cinema photographers record the scene, young Snite expects to change over to the new torso respirator. If all goes well, he will be able for the first time in a year to sit propped up in bed, to have a tub bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Lungs for Old | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Ever since Pan American Airways established tiny Wake Island as the third stop to & from China, the airport's chief ornamental feature has been an old anchor. Corroded by decades of salt water, its flukes almost rusted away, the ancient piece of iron rises seven feet above a rough concrete base in the centre of "The Park" between the landing stage and hotel. But until last week nobody was able to tell passengers much about Wake's old anchor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wake's Anchor | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...birds, insects, small animals, weeds, poets and artists, there exists no snugger sanctuary than "Sarobia," a 175-acre estate in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, on the Delaware River above Philadelphia. "Sarobia's"' gateposts are topped by big black iron cats, and ignorant Bucks County-ites have sometimes whispered that "cat-worshippers" and '"heathens" live on the estate. Actually the owners of the place, whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Sarobia | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...front last week, sinking some 20 ships in the harbor and ruining great piles of exposed goods (see p. 18). No lumber, a prime Pacific Coast export, was moving from the U. S. to either combatant, and Japan, conserving her resources, stopped her huge purchases of U. S. scrap iron, probably anticipating that the war would end before it could be made into munitions. The U. S. cotton farmer who last season sold 1,550,000 bales to Japan, his best customer (China bought only 14,000 bales), had already been warned by the Department of Agriculture of the imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War & Business | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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