Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explosive cloud of gases from the gaseous Sun. The cloud twirled out into interstellar space, following the Star for a way, until the Star's gravitational pull on the cloud became less than the Sun's. By that time the particles of the gases-hydrogen, oxygen, helium, iron, etc.-had acquired a gravity of their own. The Sun could not pull them back into its own churning self. Nor could the particles keep shooting away from the Sun. Their gravitational forces and the Sun's gravity balanced themselves; the particles perforce began whirling around...
People who looked skyward the nights of Nov. 14 and 15 saw the year's amplitude of meteors. Earth was making its annual passage through the orbit of the Leonids. Their orbit is a vast ellipsis swinging beyond even Jupiter, and along its path race hunks of stone, iron and other minerals. When those pieces strike the Earth's atmosphere friction makes them terrifically hot. They burn with an intense blue flame. Some burn up entirely, some plunge into Earth's earth or seas, adding their mite to Earth's size and power among the astral...
Laborers in iron mines in the Ruhr Valley demanded an increase in wages, submitted their petition to arbitration. The court awarded them an increase, smaller than demanded, but satisfactory to the petitioners. The employers, however, flatly refused to comply with this decision...
...when, in the full regalia of Colonel, and flashing his automatic he had bellowed: "Come on! They can't hit me and they won't hit you. Let's go." The men he thus summoned at the battle near Landres and St. Georges, he had made iron by drilling them to fight each other naked to the waist and to run miles in bare feet. A poet, Joyce Kilmer, had followed him jubilantly unto death. "Hard boiled'' they called him and terribly "Wild...
...this year. (Its business and profits this year have run somewhat less than last. But production now is at 94% of capacity and is efficient. Directors again decided to pay no common dividends.) Lastly, happily and philosophically Tycoon Schwab presided over the yearly general meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, where for so long he had truculently endured subordinate place to the late Judge Gary. His epilogue: "Our country as a whole is still in the high tide of prosperity, and prospects for the immediate future are favorable...