Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country is completely a thing of the past. Such an incident is that of the executive order recently issued by President Coolidge and even more recently backed by Mr. Sargent. Here he has proof positive that one more established prerogative of his particular little self has departed. For the iron hand of authority in his "free country" is now robbed of another gauntlet and is bare and more brutal...
...their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian, Norwegian, U. S.) sticking up at the top of the world on iron-pointed staves dropped into the ice- but not so much as a rocky islet had arisen out of the vast Polar Sea. Disappointed yet jubilant they had flown past Point Barrow, on down the Alaskan coast for 700 miles, and alighted...
...Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps and barges at an eight-knot clip. His guests scrutinized the Baden-Baden's two whirling towers of iron, 65 feet high and ten feet through, and tried to realize that, according to the Magnus principle, the quartering wind that struck the cylindrical metal sails created suction on their surfaces, the suction being greatest on the forward surfaces when they were rotated "into the wind" - i.e., clockwise for a starboard...
...Germany was formed (TIME, April 12)- the United Steel Works, combination of the Thyssen, the Phoenix, the Rheinstal and the Deutsch Luxembourg. Dillon, Read & Co. financed the merger with $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. Fritz Thyssen, son of August who was the great German coal and iron magnate, is chairman of the new company, which will have an annual capacity output of 3,700,000 tons of steel, 2,500,000 tons of pig iron, 8,000,000 tons of coke and 30,000,000 of coal...
...principal factors in undergraduate life which has caused many twenty, thirty, or forty-year alumni to remark. "The undergraduate of today is an entirely different animal from what he was in our day". To the student the Yard walls and the various college buildings feel not unlike the iron fences and the cages that make up a zoo when curious alumni return to look over these interesting modern specimens...