Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of the coal strike since April 1 has not materially affected business conditions, although it has been felt in the iron and steel market and coke prices have increased sharply. It is not within the scope of scientific economic research to forecast the probable duration of this contest, but a prolonged tie-up in coal-production would undoubtedly, have a serious effect on business improvement...
...most effective stimulation, and the best from all points of view. It is characteristic of such a course, that the members either get a great deal out of it, or nothing at all. It is a course given by a teacher; a man who makes his contact, not "by iron wires, of great resistance and little net current, copper wires that transmit well;" but, "by wireless contact of souls...
...this is worth nothing, for it never could have happened in the blood-and-iron days of old--the 'News' prints in its colyum a ballade on that very matter (obstreperous Freshmen). And a ballade is a form of verse which persons who are entirely dead to the world of the mind simply cannot write...
...generations, right back into the blood-and-iron days of the nineties and early nineteen-hundreds, the days, of turtle neck sweaters and pale ale, of law term grades and high batting averages, the Yale senior has invariably made graceful gesture in favor of the Phi Beta Kappa key--at least on the statistical blank handed about the class a few weeks before graduation. As to which honor he has spent most of his time pursuing during the preceding four years, that is perhaps another story. Even if he did spent more time chasing the fleet football than what...
...contain originals. Instead, casts have been taken from works of art such as the tympanum of the Cathedral of Strassburg, the entrance to the Cathedral of Freiburg, and the Berlin statue of the Great Elector. American artists have so deftly painted the casts that the very rust of the iron hinges, the polish of the bronze, the color of the stone, or the finish of the wood appear in the copy. There are also excellent electrotype reproductions of German work in gold and copies of paintings by Van Eyck, Durer, and Holbein. The whole collection, containing as it does examples...