Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME writer a thoroughgoing reprimand for facetious reference to the state which in 1920 led all states in production of iron pyrites and soapstone; stood third in production of lime and manganese, sixth in mineral waters. Virginia's greatest industry is agriculture. She raises more tobacco than any state save Kentucky and North Carolina...
...School leaflets, the reading of the Ten Commandments in Church, Elmer Gantry vice crusades, or the Pope issuing edicts on the dress of women, are about as effective weapons in deterring people from immoral acts as an Indian bow and arrow would be in piercing the side of an iron-clad battleship. It is not the business of the Church to legislate in morals. . . . The Church's business is to set forward great principles, and not to lay down minute moral directions...
Died. Charles Frederick Rand, 70, famed engineer, onetime President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; onetime Chairman of the Engineering Foundation; near West Orange, N. J. He was one of three engineers honored by membership in the "Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain," was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French Government in 1921, was decorated by Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...Paris, police agents found two old women living in great iron steam-boilers discarded by a factory. Each had a boiler-room 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, 4 ft. high, equipped with stove and, for shelving, boxes. Their food they got by diligent search of the public market garbage buckets. No wastrels, no disturbers of the public peace, the two old beldams were permitted to continue peacefully in their squalor...
...been jarred by a spectator's motion picture camera. However, Armour reached the tee of the last (457-yard) hole to find that he needed a birdie 3 to tie Cooper. Wood smote rubber-and Armour's ball traveled 275 yards down the middle of the fairway. Iron smote rubber-and Armour's ball made a 180-yard parabola to the green, 15 feet from the cup. For four minutes Armour studied his putt. Then, there was a tap, a roll and a clink. Armour had made 301. Next day, in the play...