Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with activity, ruled by the iron hand of mob psychology how can the college of today foster genius, cherish the artist, inspire the idealist? Mr. Henry Rood, writing in the February Scribner's, would like to know. And he would like to know, too, what place the modern college would find for Emerson, Poe, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and their great contemporaries. Being a shrewd observer Mr. Rood answers his last question as every thoughtful undergraduate could answer it: the college would first force these men "to wear hats and caps of the same style, suits and overcoats...
...sentiment which this international tactlessness created in Germany was the last straw that broke the Centrist's back! It is a mistake, however, to think that the present government is anti-French. It is controlled by business, and big business favors an economic alliance between French iron producers and German coal producers. The Socialists also favor friendship with France and other countries, on sentimental and internationalist lines, however, rather than on economic ones...
...Germany. Considering the difficulty with which Bismarck ejected Austria from the Confederation such talk is astounding. Gone is his empire; gone the House which he patiently raised to great power; and now his arch-enemy Austria reappears amid the fold from which he drove it with blood and iron. But the wheel of fate which has crushed the works of his hand has likewise crushed Austria. Stripped of its power, its land, its resources, the once proud state looks to a weak Germany as its last hope in a struggle for existence...
...Premier Orlando opened the debate for the Opposition. Amid frequent and angry interruptions he criticised adversely the Premier's recent iron-hand policy (TIME, Jan. 19), and for the rest contented himself with expatiating upon the contents of the withdrawn motion...
...story addition-at peak construction prices. Up the street, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, centre of the Wall Street money market, at about the same time finished its magnificent new headquarters-also at practically peak building prices. But until recently, J. P. Morgan & Co. merely put some inexpensive iron fire-escapes on the Mills Building and waited for lower building costs. Evidently those have come into sight, for J. P. Morgan & Co. have now transferred the leasehold to the Equitable Trust Co., which intends to erect on the Mills Building site a 34-story office building. Construction will start...