Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Zoological Club. Review: "The Measurement and Significance of Hydrogen Iron Concentrations," by Mr. Selig Hecht. Zoological Laboratory Room...
...some fraction of what they are spending on themselves? If everybody who goes to the game would give a single dollar, there would be at least $45,000. This would prove surprisingly effective in keeping the breath of line in the starving peoples of Europe, now crushing under the iron heel of remorseless war. Remember this appeal and be prepared to meet...
...Egyptian and Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...
...used for political purposes, and of throwing them open indiscriminately to the public. Undoubtedly there is good reason for this attitude. If not line were drawn anywhere, the academic halls would in extreme cases become rallying places for street-corner orators and their followers. But as a sweeping iron rule it is unnecessarily severe, besides being economically wasteful in that it limits the number of hearers of educative messages...
...adequate" preparation, this false "insurance" of peace, if our young men understood the financial and commercial pressure back of this agitation, they would treat with the indignation it deserves this wholesale betrayal of the spiritual ideals and forces of America. Force, the "Big Stick," the mailed fist, the iron hand behind the Law and such cant phraseology of the half-baked thinker are running riot in our press today...