Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...star was first noted in 1908 by Mrs. Fleming. In 1924, Beljawsky suggested a periodicity of ten and one half months. The name "iron star" has been suggested, because the enhanced spectrum of iron is present in emission with greater purity than in any ordinary laboratory source...
Herr Schwarz tried the effects of iron rods heated in a bonfire. He tried several other ingenious devices. The horses refused to plunge from the cliff. Herr Schwarz at length desisted for the day, returned home, reflected...
...Virginia there is the famed Raven, dedicated to the dark memory of Edgar Allan Poe. At Colgate there are the weird Skull and Scroll, and Gorgon's Head. University of California has its Skull and Key and its Golden Bear. Other famed senior societies: Owl and Serpent (Chicago), Iron Cross (Wisconsin), Skull and Snakes (Leland Stanford), Iron Wedge (Minnesota), Quill and Dagger (Cornell), Innocents (Nebraska), Mystical Seven and Skull and Serpent (Wesleyan...
...Stimson, the Dartmouth speeder who won the mile and the three-mile, one after the other, in 1876, told of the time when the Orange and Black team from Princeton carried away the first Intercollegiate title from Saratoga. He was followed by Dr. Graeme M. Hammond of Columbia, the iron man of American running. Although he did not figure in the first meet in 1876, it was in the following year that he accomplished the by no means inconsiderable feat of winning the 440 and the 880 and placing second in the mile his own efforts being sufficient to give...
...timers begins this afternoon at Braves Field at 1.15 o'clock, the University Second baseball team will be represented by a former and a present coach. Fred Lake, who tutored the Crimson scrubs to last year's win over Yale, will be behind the bat, stopping the curves of "Iron-man" Joe McGinnity and Mike Lynch, while Fred Parent, the present mentor of the Seconds, will be cavorting among the daisies in the shortstop position...