Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trick is really very simple. The pole (probably not the one originally exhibited) has a strong metal core, and fits solidly into a socket in the ground. Onto its upper end, through the folds of the elaborate knot, is rigidly attached a horizontal iron rod, which passes under the Yogi's arm to the upper side of his body, and from the end of which he is suspended by means of some sort of harness around his body. The rod is concealed by his half-closed hand and voluminous, wrist-length sleeves...
According to Professor Hoffman's Modern Magic, the trick is done by means of an iron and leather harness worn by the performer which is attached by means of a ratchet to the upright stick...
Last week American Iron & Steel Institute, representing 95% of the nation's steelmasters, took full-page advertisements in some 375 newspapers to repeat its declaration of war against Labor's drive to organize its historically unorganized workers (TIME, July 6). From over 100 organizers put in the field by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee went reports and charges that the war had already begun...
...days ago the palace sentries broke up a game between H. R. H. Prince Tomislav inside the royal iron fence and Belgrade street urchins outside. Object of the game was to see who could spit farthest. According to a Belgrade dispatch last week some Orthodox priests have asked pious Serbs when praying for good King Peter to add "and may God be kind to his naughty brother...
...What concerned the stockmarket most last week was the imminence of a more than seasonal summer slump. Automobile production is bound to taper off as motormakers prepare new models for November showings. Iron Age was pessimistic on steel operations after the July 4 shutdowns, reporting: "Heavy consumer buying from a number of sources is admittedly prompted by fear of labor trouble (see p. 16) as well as by higher third-quarter prices. . . . It cannot be denied that a large proportion of production during June has been borrowed from July and August...