Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...places which had been left disputed on the Harvard-Yale track team which will meet Oxford, and Cambridge at the Stadium on July 13 were settled in special trials on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Uihlein, Yale freshman shot putter, put the iron ball three-quarters of an inch farther than G. W. Kuehn '32 to win a berth on the team with a toss of 43 feet 11 1-8 inches. E. E. Record '32, Harvard freshman captain, sped over the 120-yard high hurdles in 16 seconds, ahead of F. J. Mardulier '30, earning his right to compete against...
...most bullish of the bulls is William Crapo Durant, motor and market man with reputed large holdings in Chrysler, General Motors, International Combustion, Montgomery Ward, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, Warner Bros., and many a speculative favorite. Inasmuch as the first five of the half dozen listed closed last week at only a few points above their lows for the year, Mr. Durant was widely rumored as having been pressed for margin and as liquidating much of his holdings. There was a suspicion, indeed, that the Durant shirt, if not lost, had at least been temporarily mislaid. It was also...
THEY are coming off the press these days like wintry morning griddle cakes from the Georgian iron. But, unlike the dependable breakfast staple, detective stories are of no uniform quality. Every so often there is a good one. It is probably the lure of discovery that keeps the habitual reader going. One can always pick up the newest offering with trembling excitement. However, in the case of Reginald Wright Kauffman's most recent temptation there is no cause for excitement. "Beg Pardon, Sir!" is not an intrusion upon the low average of its contemporaries...
Under the iron hand of the Republican majority, the Tariff Bill was rounded into shape for final passage by the House last week. It was not a pretty sight for soft-hearted political theorists. But that large sector of U. S. citizens which exalts the House over the Senate, which praises its "businesslike" method of legislative procedure, glowed with fresh admiration as it observed a tight little political autocracy make the fewest necessary concessions to muster a party majority behind its economic will and then, under a special rule, impel the measure through to passage...
James Augustine Farrell of Brooklyn, from common seaman to President of U. S. Steel Corp., was last week the first recipient of the new Elbert H. Gary Memorial medal of the American Iron & Steel Institute, for "distinguished achievement...