Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feared. To half the world he was the epitome of German militarism. The end of the war apparently had sealed his fame for unlike many of the opponent generals, he vanished swiftly into a fierce and definite retirement. There was neither reason nor opportunity for toppling him from his iron pedestal, and so Germany still honored...
...Charles river which will be a material aid to University rowing has recently been announced. It has been decided that the old Cottage Farm bridge, which has long been an eye sore to travelers between Boston and Cambridge, shall be demolished and a modern structure of concrete and iron be erected in its place...
Within the Spencer Thermostat, there will be a little disc of flexible metal. When an iron or percolator gets too hot, crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...
Does Helen of Troy need Pond's Cold Cream or Mars Nuxated Iron? A claque...
...claques, regardless of how successful they may be. A claque is a sort of musical insurance against an occasional unresponsive audience. Not infrequently it is more a parasite upon an artist than his tool. If there had been Pond's Cold Cream on sale in Troy or Nuxated Iron on Olympus, what is more likely than that Helen and Mars respectively would have availed themselves of these things ? Queen Marie of Rumania uses Pond's Cream (according to advertisements) and Jack Dempsey takes Nuxated Iron (TIME, July...