Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home and continue your partially successful efforts to iron out the disagreement between your Mohammedan minority of 70,000,000 and your Hindu majority of 218,000,000 as to their proportional representation in the Indian parliament that...
Leon F. Rains, first vice president of Columbia Steel Corp., Pacific Coast unit of United States Steel Corp., resigned to succeed the late Addison H. Beale as president of A. M. Byers Co., iron-pipe specialists...
...them re corded more than one period in American affairs. Nearest to achieve Dr. Channing's ambition have been two contemporaries: University of Pennsylvania's Professor Emeritus John Bach McMaster, who dealt with the period from the Revolution to the Civil War, and the wealthy, retired iron & coal merchant, James Ford Rhodes (1848-1927), who produced a masterpiece on American History since 1850. Many a historian has written short, one-volume comprehensive histories of the U. S. for reference and school use. Dr. Channing himself published one such in 1898. Three years earlier he had begun his larger...
...write stories, novels, poetry. There'll be a salon like Mme Sévigné's. ... I want the sensitivity and understanding of Katherine Mansfield and the penetration of George Sand. ... I want to live to be a smart old witch who rules with an iron sceptre. . . . But one thing is sure, anyhow. I'll never be crying my heart out over a guy that loves and leaves me. After this 'blues' business, I'm positively immune to such silliness...
Soon after that, the exciting, smell-laden strip of turf and shrubbery in the middle of the avenue began to be narrowed. And policemen grew stricter about letting dogs go inside the iron fences. At the same time the sidewalks were narrowed too. Since telephone poles long ago disappeared from Park Avenue and the slim trees are boarded up, a dog's life was no fun at all during the months when hydrants and lamp posts were made inaccessible by excavations...