Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toss-up. Cornell has the Mangan-protege Vipond in this race, and the Big Green has Quimby, also a first class distance man; but they will both have been considerably de-energized by their race in the 1000 yard run event. It remains to be seen whether these iron men can stave off the fresh Harvard milers, Hallowell, who incidentally, has been coming along nicely this year, and Jack Scheu. In the two mile run Cornell is entering Bruce Kerr who took fourth in the IC4A 3000 meter run. Harvard enters Playfair and Dartmouth sends in Lepreau. From this point...
...opinion long held in wide circles that our colleges are only stagnant back-waters in the rapid flow of modern life, dedicated as ever to obsolete faiths and lost causes. They cling, for instance, to the outworn notion of liberty and give shelter to thinkers and scholars whom the iron broom of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler has swept out of their native lands. New York Times...
...doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white collar, has seemed a character out of Harvard's past. Like his ancestor, the Puritan governor, Arthur Endicott has ruled his domain with an iron hand little softened by words of tact. The very air of an incongruously well-appointed Lehman Hall, has been chilled and rarified by a spirit of strict New England economy...
Colorado Fuel & Iron...
Above Schneider-Creusot stands the Comite des Forges and above this all-powerful iron and steel organization stands the shadowy figure of Frangois de Wendel. M. de Wendel is regent of the Bank of France. He is a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He owns most of Le Journal des Debats. His international connections during the War were so powerful that, when the Germans took the French iron mines in the Briey basin, the French Army was forbidden to bombard the source of a great part of the ore Germany consumed during the War. With all Governments as their...