Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...notes collected by this scholar during a quarter of a century, necessary to the second edition of his work,--everything was destroyed. My unfortunate colleague, who still enjoyed a vigorous physique, who was only 53 years old, large and strong, who had always worked with the strength of iron,--could not survive the terrible catastrophe. Two months ago he died in Cambridge, England, of a malady caused by the grief and fears which the war had brought him. The fire of August 26 had lost for service the new work which Professor Van Gehucten had prepared in the full maturity...
...history of the present condition of certain important industries. Sugar is the first of these considered. The treatment starts with a discussion of sugar production, and of the domestic cane and beet resources. The sugar refining industry is next taken up, and finally is considered the Sugar Trust. Iron and steel come next, and successive chapters on this industry deal with the general progress of the industries, with the steel rail situation, tin plate, imports and exports in general, and with the influence of the United States Steel Corporation. The concluding chapters of the volume take up the textile industries...
This amazing outcome is contrary to the customary experience with several other elements, notably copper, silver, iron, sodium, and chlorine, each of which seems to give a constant atomic weight, no matter what the geographical source may have been. No attempt is made here to discuss the theoretical aspects of the facts presented, but attention is called to their qualitative agreement with the hypothesis brought forward by Dr. Fajans and by Dr. Soddy, that some of the places in the periodic table, corresponding to high atomic weight should perhaps include several elements, different in atomic weights, but very similar...
...last issue of the Lampoon appears a page of comic drawings entitled "Why Not Have an Iron Cross Too?" by which the famous token of bravery is frivolously placed (thoughtlessly without doubt), in a ridiculous light...
...does not matter whether or not our sympathies are with Germany. We should remember that the Iron Cross is being given to men (young college students like ourselves) who, believing sincerely in the ideals of their country and the justice of their country's cause, are willing to sacrifice their lives...