Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ashes pail, a threshing flail, an iron wedge and beetle...
...irrepressible residents of Randolph Hall have the athletic habit of dropping over the iron fence, rather than seeking to move the colossal front door. Such extra-curriculum activity has almost resulted in a little playful shooting up and down Linden Street. Several late entrances have been effected only with long and harried explanations. No one minds a little gun play now and then but why can't both sides shoot...
...Significance. Elegant roguery on the high seas; brigs putting in from Guinea at midnight with no riding-lights; blackamoors wailing in gyves under iron hatches; these things - no more than sinister rumors to the orderly citizen of 1825 - are familiar enough to all modern worthies who do any reading. They undergo, in this volume, a fastidious renaissance. Unlike many writers of "period" fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times...
...John Fritz Medal was established in 1902 in honor.of John Fritz, famed iron and steel manufacturer, is awarded annually for important achievements in science or industry...
Liquidation has been halted in both the grain and the stock markets. Yet evidence accumulates that, of late, production of steel and iron, gasoline, copper and other important commodities has been somewhat too brisk for the gradual development of consumption, and the trend of prices is therefore toward lower levels. Gasoline led off in this direction last week by a 1? price reduction...