Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Country mice, people have declared, are fatter than city mice-the old oaken bucket is a better vessel than the iron water pipe-the rugged farmer's lad, how he bulges beside the spindling sallowling from the city...
...some time it has been an open secret that U. S. iron and steel men were carefully analyzing the future possible effects of foreign competition on their business. Stories in the press of Franco-German iron and steel mergers have recently drawn public attention to this question...
...first four months of 1925, imports into this country of iron and steel have reached the comparatively large total of 321,435 tons, consisting of 173,249 tons of pig iron, 205,979 tons of pig iron and alloys, 36,240 tons of scrap and 79,216 tons of finished and semi-finished steel. But these figures include imports of such raw material as ferromanganese and other steel alloys. Also they amount to only 0.65 of 1% of U. S. steel production during the first four months of 1925. The imports of finished and semi-finished steel, in fact, amount...
That there is a slight physical similarity between President von Hindenburg and Prince Bismarck seems undisputed. But that there is any intellectual similarity seems equally impossible to entertain. Nevertheless, Berliners are never tired of comparing their President to the Iron Chancellor. Recently, the President's sheep dog, Rolf, took up his residence at the Presidential Palace in the Wilhelmstrasse. Berliners were reminded that Bismarck's great Dane, Tyras, once was a canine resident in the Chancellery on the same street...
...voiceless, staring at a Nurmi whose legs churned up and down, whose shoulders rolled, whose chest heaved-one who unmistakably resembled that unhappy journeyman of the piles, hookworm, gallstones, liver complaint, kidney trouble, Bright's disease, lost manhood-poor Before. They saw him, with a desperate display of iron willpower, set a pace that cost him anguish and troubled not at all Runner Helffrich, who loped behind until, in the last hundred yards, he sprinted, broke the tape, gave Nurmi the first defeat he has sustained in a scratch race since he was beaten by Josef Guillemot of France...