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Word: ironical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidates Row | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...pomp that Italy could muster was displayed at Marshal Diaz's state funeral, last week, but it paled before two simple scenes enacted while the dead hero yet lay in his own small room at Rome, with four tall candles at the corners of his iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of Diaz | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Professor Albert Sauveur. Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy and Metallography, will lecture on "The Rusting of Iron and its Prevention" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in 110 Prince Hall the lecture will be open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sauveur to Lecture Today | 3/8/1928 | See Source »

Colorado operators maintained that the strikers' morale had been undermined by loss of pay and the introduction of many new workers unsympathetic towards the I. W. W. But the largest operator, President J. F. Welborn of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., frankly admitted the injury done his own interests when he estimated that the four-month disturbance had cost Labor $3,000,000, railroads $4,000,000, affiliated industries $1,000,000 and Colorado's operators $10,000,000, not to mention markets which it would take years to recapture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Colorado | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin was not guilty of the murder of her father. The Rev. Pardue said, "I can truthfully say that I have done my duty to God and the State." Mrs. Gatlin embraced her husband, set off to get her curling iron which she had left in the jail, and then went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Murder Trial | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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