Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friday afternoon an inter-dormitory cross country meet for Freshmen will being at 3.30 o'clock. This first organized meant of the hill and dale season will be short race, one and a quarter times sound the iron fence of Soldiers, Field...
...father, Hans Luther (Lyder, Luder, Ludher) was a peasant from Möhra Township, Thuringia. After his marriage he settled in Mansfeld, like many another peasant, attracted by the prospect of work in the mines there. Thrifty, he leased first one, then three small furnaces for smelting iron ore. He prospered. His son, Martin, went to the Mansfeld village school, later to St. George's School at Eisenach and the University of Erfurt, then Germany's most famed. To suggest that Martin Luther was ignorant would be absurd, but to deny that he was born of and raised...
Thorough tests of a new British anti-tank gun, said to be capable of destroying any tank at 800 yards, led to a furious controversy among experts, last week, during which the statement was bandied that "the tank is now as obsolete as the old cast iron battleship...
...first hole at Brae Burn is 337 yards with a brook at the depth of the fairway, just below the green. Smart golfer', use an iron from the tee for a long pitch to the green rather than take a chance on driving into the brook. When Jones and Perkins went out to play their match, Perkins took an iron out, Jones took a wooden club−and a six for the hole to Perkins' four. Perkins was one up until the fourth; then Jones evened the match. At the end of the morning round, Jones...
Osborne Wood, son of the late Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, once made and lost a tidy fortune in Wall Street, has recently been working in an iron mine near Pecos, N. Mex. Last week he quit when a fellow workman was killed. Said he: "I have found all iron ore mines I have visited in New Mexico unsafe. There is a law regulating coal mine safety, but none relating to iron ore mines. I am going to do everything possible to get proper legislative measures in New Mexico to compel mine owners to safeguard employes...