Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geologists are now certain that Asia does not possess sufficient raw materials (iron & coal) to make possible a Western type of industrialization. Textiles and light industries will grow-but great steel plants can never grow up in Asia as in the U. S. ¶Population of Japan is now over 60,000,000, will be 90,000,000 in 30 years and then will probably stabilize. What to do? Birth control is not encouraged by the Government but neither is it discouraged. Contraceptives are widely advertised. But Japan bases her policy on the proposition that the world must make room...
...foursome and they played three rounds on as many courses, Miss Gottlieb and Wales playing for a ball a hole. After halving two matches, she finally won with an 80 to his 83. He gave her a box of balls, autographed her card. She gave him an iron club. During the match Wales smiled when, after a flub, Beatrice Gottlieb cried, "Oh nerts...
Making clear that Prussia will ruthlessly suppress Jews, Communists or even Nazi Storm Troopers who show symptoms of disobedience. Premier Göring declared: "I have determined to intervene with an iron fist! ... It has been shown that the enemies of the State were only pretending to be dead. . . . Whoever in the future lays violent hands on an official of the State, a policeman or a Storm Trooper, must know that he will pay for it in the briefest possible time. ... It is entirely beside the point whether the act is followed by death or merely leads to injury...
Dentists could dismiss this problem if all their patients were as stoical as one of Dr. Arrigo Piperno's. Dr. Piperno, who plays the violin and has four clinics in Rome, was graduated from Chicago Dental College 25 years ago. Last week, trim and handsome, his iron-gray mustache carefully waxed, he was back in Chicago to tell old & new friends about his No. 1 patient for the past eight years, Benito Mussolini...
...traveling a few centimetres in lead, whereas cosmic rays can traverse many feet of that metal. Professor Rossi found the showers most frequent in metals of high atomic number, metals in which the atomic nuclei have large cohorts of electrons. Lead (82 electrons) furnished twice as many showers as iron (26 electrons), four times as many as aluminum (13 electrons...