Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohioans know John Bricker as a husky, iron-grey-haired 45-year-old who has the elemental political prerequisites. He was a farm boy, schoolteacher, lawyer, a notably honest utilities commissioner, an ab.e State attorney-general before he ran and won on last year's Republican upswell. He pared $3,000,000 from the last Davey budget, in turning out the Daveycrats he offended some politicos by holding Republican patronage within bounds. Every inch a Presidential prospect in his own mind, he is mortally afraid that indiscreet friends or canny enemies will boom him too soon, explode his chance...
...those 14 years, milk-drinking, early-to-bed Lou Gehrig, son of a German-born Manhattan janitor, became famed as Base ball's Iron Horse. He played in 2,130 consecutive games (besides seven World Series and hundreds of exhibition games)-a record that no baseballer has ever approached or perhaps ever will.* Far more important than his record for durability, however, is Gehrig's batting record: 1,991 runs driven in (100 runs or more a year for 13 years), 2,721 hits (1,192 of them for extra bases), 1,886 runs (including 494 home runs...
...their chief, the Cambridge fire department climbed up Weld Hall stairs to room 40 belonging to Chapin Wallour '42. there tucked behind desks and chairs, they found some charred wood caused by a hot soldering iron...
Wallour explained that when he returned to his room after lunch, he discovered that his soldering iron had been accidentally connected. He called a member of the maintenance department to make sure that the fire was out. The maintenance department phoned the college switchboard which sent a number ten alarm to the fire department...
...also wrote "iron Brew. A Century Of American Ore And Steel...