Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street leading into Pittsburgh, a bus carrying a troupe of strolling players who present Uncle Tom's Cabin was hurrying. Other cars were hurrying likewise. One was a handsome limousine, with a banker reclining within; one was a scrap-iron truck, driven by a Negro. It was this truck, passing three automobiles coming toward it, that accidentally rammed one of them. There was a tremendous crash. Five other cars piled into the wreckage before they could stop. Among them were the strolling players, the handsome limousine. Little Eva was badly shaken. The two bloodhounds yelped with pain and rage...
...stood in a window recess. We had a splendid view of the Thames, and one of us-I think it was Anthony Hope-expressed regret that so glorious a landscape and such graceful arches as characterized the stone bridges should be marred by a rectangular iron railway structure. H. G. Wells interrupted...
...scientifically known, is a comparatively common element. It makes up about 7.28% of the earth (exclusive of the unknown interior).* It is exceedingly useful because it is malleable (not brittle), does not rust and only slightly tarnishes, and is very light, only about a third as heavy as iron. None the less it was not really isolated as a metal until 1828, the reason being that it is comparatively difficult to separate from the other elements with which it is commonly compounded, as with silica in clay. The result was that aluminum attained no great use because of its excessive...
...Bismarck was extremely anxious that the text of the Treaty of Berlin should remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper...
Even if mechanical ingenuity can patch up this patriarch of the desert, a projecting wall will have to be built around the figure, according to Arthur Woodley. American civil engineer A caged Sphinx whose head is held on by bars of Birmingham iron can scarcely be expected to personify the wisdom and mystery of the East...