Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...political economy and he professes to have found a solution to the problem of what affects wages. Whether he has succeeded or not in a correct solution his opinion will be well worth hearing. The remaining lectures are to be a review of the three great industries, cotton, iron and wool. These three words are constantly in the mouths of the people, as the subject of tariff reform is so often mentioned in the daily papers and reviews. For this reason the club has determined to give the students an insight into the workings of these industries as they exist...
...million dollars to endow this leading university of the South. Of this sum, about $400,000 has been raised, one half being received from citizens of the North. The university is located at Lexington, Va., in the center of large coal fields and in the neighborhood of extensive iron ore mines, where every facility will be afforded students to put into practice the scientific knowledge acquired in the class room. To aid in the establishment of a thorough school of mines, some $200,000 is needed, and as Washington took so much interest in this particular university, it seems peculiarly...
...rules us. It is upon his words that our privileges depend. With his whims change the whole system and method of instruction. Not only this, but he places a military officer whom he calls Curator, in general charge over us, and through him directs the minutest details with an iron hand. The instructors' chairs are not indeed bought and sold or given to absolutely ignorant members of the military as they were in Nicholas I.'s time. But the professors, however learned or talented, under the restrictions of the Czar, are forced into mere educating machines to teach by rote...
...Yale university crew have had their seats connected with a long iron bar, so as to cause a uniform slide. [News...
...storehouses for his books and manuscripts. The furniture of the large room was simple in the extreme. Near the small stove was a plain table and two chairs. In one corner, arranged on his large handkerchief spread on the floor, was his clean linen, in another was his small iron bedstead. About the room, especially on the window-seats and mantel, were numerous pots, mortars, pestles, etc., which gave it the appearance of the abode of an alchemist. The west window was boarded up and the door was secured by several stout locks, which he always tightly fastened on leaving...