Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battening once more on the pre-whistle furor that invades dyed-in-the-wool grid iron followers on the occasion of every great game, ticket forgers have foisted off literal scores of false admission pasteboards on the West Point and Harvard public this week-end. It is not a new crime. It is not one that can be prevented. The law guardians may possibly overtake and trump two knaves, no more...
...seal fisheries dispute with England and defending the McKinley Tariff were his first big jobs, both successful. President Harrison made him a Federal judge in Ohio. He handed down the decision dissolving the cast-iron pipe monopoly-first vital effect of the Sherman anti-trust law. President Roosevelt, the trustbuster, offered him twice a Supreme Court appointment but he declined...
...only scar I bear,' he said, 'is on my foot. I could show to you now if I were to take off my shoe. I got it by stepping on a red-hot iron chip in my bare feet at my father's blacksmith shop...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Theodore Borutski, onetime German soldier, owner of an iron cross, stated that he wished to change his last name to Roosevelt. Not in honor of famed Theodore Roosevelt: Theodore Borutski wished his name to be Quentin Roosevelt in honor of the son of famed Theodore Roosevelt, aviator who was killed by Germans in France. To France, Theodore Borutski wished to send his iron cross that it might be laid together with a wreath upon the grave of Quentin Roosevelt...
...that their facilities for scientific investigation approximate in excellence their opportunities for the study of the humanities. It would be well to determine, however, if these facilities may by some means be made as available to the undergraduate as are such institutions for instance as the Widener Library. The iron bound regulations of Boylston Hall in regard to closing hours have for years been an inconvenience and in many cases a downright hardship. Every student in even the most elementary chemistry course knows the annoyance and loss of time engendered by the inexorable cry "Close up; time to close...