Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years after presenting the world with the new-famous iron lung, the University School of Public Health has come up with the "electrophoresis respirator," a device that may make the artificial lung obsolete...
...Look at the Iron Curtain...
...woman starting life . . ." said Mrs. Winston Churchill to the graduating class of the National Institute of Houseworkers, "I think I should try to pass the examination myself. I should feel embarrassed working together [with you] if I was doing everything badly, or if I did not know how to iron a child's frock...
...Iron Curtain between Yugoslavia and the Soviet East zipped up tighter yesterday when Rumania announced she too had severed friendship treaties with Tito's country. The formal isolation of Yugoslavia from the East completes except for Czechoslovakia the moves of Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, who followed the lead of Russia...
...Russians relaxed their border controls at a number of crossing points to encourage Western Germans to participate in gigantic "World Peace Day" demonstrations throughout the Eastern Zone, but only about 500 Germans were reported to have taken advantage of the holes in the Iron Curtain to go East...