Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time that the eyes of public cameras had seen President Coolidge on the back of a horse, either iron or flesh & blood. Dressed in complete cowboy costume down to Mexican spurs, the President rode three miles up the side of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, accompanied by his riding instructor, "Dakota Clyde" Jones; Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and others. Following a presidential salute of 21 blasts,? President Coolidge dedicated the national memorial which Gutzon Borglum began to carve on the granite face of Mount Rushmore. "We have come home to dedicate a cornerstone that...
...Institute (Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany) gave hope that nature is still building oil stores, by another process. Germans have perfected processes of manufacturing synthetic fuel oils by heating carbon (bituminous coal, lignite) in a stream of steam or natural gas, in the presence of certain catalytics including iron. Germany's fuel-oil supply now seems assured as long as her coal lasts. Dr. Tropsch pointed out that natural gases collected from the crater of Mont Pelée were found to be mixed in proportions approximating those used in the laboratory for synthetic petroleum. With iron and the other...
...pantheist. He follows the Rev. Dr. Barclay, a man of 50, from a deserted pulpit southward down the Pacific coast from Monterey. Common sanity is dropping from him like a cloak that he may carry or not. His spirit runs naked to the spirit of the hills, of the "iron wind" on the sea promontories. He will be possessed of a god beyond the old ethic, "good and evil...
...overcome the Morrises the next three years. And then, on Christmas Day, 1875, Tom Morris Jr. died, aged but 24. Tom Morris Sr. lived on, but never again was a Morris champion. St. Andrews "canonized" the pair of them and erected a statue of Tom Morris Jr. making an iron shot. The statue's legend reads: "Sure...
...Bath, Me., the Central Maine Power Co., another Insull company, learned that the Bath Iron Works intended to dissolve. To preserve its chain of customers it bought the iron works...