Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the machine age will ever reach its iron tenacles into the classrooms of schools and colleges--including Harvard--is impossible to predict; but the Fund for the Advancement of Education has made certain that for at least another year, in the basement of Memorial Hall, machines will teach men; matter will rule mind
...Which often charged such exorbitant prices that Pennsylvania mineworkers in 1902 accused the coal operators of making profits "not only from mining coal but by mining miners." Many companies fired employees who shopped at independent stores. One of the worst company storekeepers: John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. refused to give miners the right to shop where they chose until after a strike...
...what really is or had a taste of pure and abiding pleasure. Like brute beasts, they look ever downwards, and feed stooping over the ground and poking their noses into their tables, cropping and coupling; and to get more and more of these things they kick and butt with iron horns and hooves and kill one another because of their insatiate desire, since they fail either to satisfy with real things the real part of themselves, or to fill up that vessel, their body...
...Full amnesty is hereby given to all citizens indicted, charged, convicted, detained, confined or exiled for political reasons, without any exceptions," said the single-sentence decree signed by President Victor Paz Estenssoro one day last week. At 2 o'clock the next morning, the iron gates of San Pedro jail in La Paz creaked open, and 300 political prisoners jostled their way out into the darkness, some carrying little violins and chess sets that they had carved with penknives during confinements of as long as three years. The most notable among the liberated men: Gustavo Stumpf, tall, blond leader...
MONOPOLY SUIT has been filed against American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. Justice Department charges that American-Standard (40% of the iron bathtubs, 38% of the sinks) "substantially" reduced competition by buying Mullins Manufacturing Corp. (18% of the sinks). Suit demands that American-Standard divest itself of Mullins stock and assets...