Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, War Lord Léon Trotsky raged in Moscow. "We will never agree that the Bessarabian workmen and peasants shall remain under the iron heel of the Rumanian nobles. We will not make war and we will strive to avoid it by all means. This, however, does not mean that we agree to the present situation. The Soviet Government will use all its power to liquidate the conflict peacefully. If its efforts are unsuccessful, however, this will be due to a desire on the part of the other side to aggravate the situation...
Baroness Leontine Puttkammer, was arrested in Vienna. She was accused of having put arsenic in her husband's coffee. Dr. Adolph Gessmann, President of the Vienna Credit Bank, found that his new bride, descendant of the Iron Chancellor, was a manhater. She left him shortly after her marriage, on the ground that she did not like men. Persuaded to return, she poisoned Dr. Gessmann the first evening after their reunion...
Through the individual brilliancy of R. H. Lane '24, and his brother, E. L. Lane '24, the University team won the Intercollegiate Fencing Championship in New York last Saturday for the second year in succession thus retaining the famous "Iron Man" trophy. In the score for individual honors, E. L. Lane repeated his brother's feel of the previous year by annexing second place honors...
...discussed at length the factors that influence burning, showing how, by the addition of certain third substances, such things as iron could be made to combust and burn. Many different forms of flames were illustrated on a big table raised on the platform and Professor Lamb produced one mass of flame which he calmly held in his hand and picked to pieces...
...five medals given for foils competition in the intercollegiates held at the Hotel Astor, New York, last week, and the only trophy, returned with the University fencing team. The three medals for the champion team and the medal for the runner-up in the individual championship accompanied the famous "Iron Man" which will resume its place in the Union for another year...