Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biological experiments. The men who ate at the training tables were given a diet which did not include any meat, and in place of this item of food they were given certain of the constituent elements of animal flesh in the form of chemical compounds such as food ferrin (iron) and lacto-dexterin. And since the Battle Creek College lost only two games of the season's schedule, it as conceded that the experiment was a success...
...mass of undergraduates are uninterested in a debate; if it is conducted under the iron-bound conventions that characterize the old "American" system the audience is bored; and if it is conducted under the so-called Oxford system, the audience is restless...
...peculiar to the Great Lakes, carry coal from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky to ports of Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world. On the down voyage they haul wheat from Canada (Port Arthur and Fort William) and from the U. S. (Duluth), and iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores. This commerce is immensely valuable and ship owners push their vessels to beyond the limits of the navigation season, which ends the first week in December and begins the middle of April. It is at the end of the season that...
...week, wooden tugs armored with iron plates gnawed at the solidifying ice. Masters poured oil into the waters to retard the rate of freezing. It takes more cold to freeze fouled water than pure. But the weather was 20° below zero and the tugs had to do their work. They would back off 300 to 400 feet from the pack. Then with a snarl of steam they would dash at the ice, only to be bounced by their own recoil. Yet at each attack a bit of ice did crumble to their bites...
Brown's eleven iron men went out to clip through Colgate's lather. But Colgate's backs were slippery, the Colgate line stood stiff as bris tles, and Colgate, beaten only by the Navy, did what no other team has done to Brown, holding the almost-national champions...