Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where most of my comrades who were able to read your language studied your magazine. In Europe we don't have magazines giving in a brief and attractive way news about political and economic events in the U.S. and abroad . . . Copies of TIME are highly valued behind the Iron Curtain. Single copies are sold for as much as 25 marks in East German Currency. That means half the amount a common worker earns a week. A man living in free America can hardly imagine what it means to be cut off from information. He will never really understand...
...With iron fist and velvet glove, the rulers of Communist East Germany sought to erase the memory of the 17th of June. From the massive Soviet embassy in Unter den Linden streamed decrees and orders...
With the crater were bronze basins and four chariot wheels with bronze-covered hubs and iron rims. Of the chariot itself little remained, but among the bronze ornaments from its vanished sides lay the delicate skeleton of a young woman. She must have been (or been loved by) a person of high position, for on her head was a golden diadem weighing more than a pound, with beautifully modeled winged horses and lions' paws. Professor Joffroy does not think the crown was of local manufacture, but he has no idea where it was made...
Professor Joffroy believes that the honored young woman died about 2,500 years ago, while the Greeks were fighting their Persian wars and when Rome was still a struggling young republic. The lady's people were Celts of the late Hallstatt (first iron) Age. In culture they did not rival the Greeks, but they certainly were not the dark primitives that Greek historians maligned...
Saved from the Trenches. Born in Wheeling, W.Va., where his father was a steel molder and his mother pieced out the family income papering walls at 50? an hour, Dutch quit high school after one year, went to work (at $5 a week) for National Tube Co., "throwing pig iron around from 7 in the morning to 5:30 at night." Later, as a civilian draftsman for the Army Engineers, he found time to take International Correspondence School courses at night, crammed in enough drafting, engineering and math to pass the entrance exams to Carnegie Tech. Dutch worked...