Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside, a street car stands on the track where it was stopped early in the week to save electricity. My bath tub is full of water for what we know in these days as "flushing." Three blocks away in the centre of my hilltop suburb is an enormous black iron tank with Legionnaires in charge, where I may get water. We boil it, we boil all water, as Mr. Dykstra instructs, but water has been provided. We are using again at the request of the City Hall, canned vegetables instead of fresh to save water...
...pottery, consisting of eighty well-preserved specimens, dates from the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, 2000-1200 B.C., and from the beginning of the Iron Age, 1200-600 B.C. The 46 glass objects are excellent examples of the principal varieties of glass bottles, jugs, and bowls found in tombs dating from the Greek and Roman periods...
Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt announced that Ranger will be the name of the sloop now being built at the Bath (Me.) Iron Works, with which he hopes to defend the America's Cup this summer. Ranger is the namesake of the first U. S. man-of-war to hoist the new national flag and the first to receive an official salute from a foreign nation...
Forester Everts successfully tested an experimental model, returned it to the shop to iron out minor kinks. Before next summer he expects to have several full-size units on duty in the woods. Dry ice costs only 4? per Ib. and one filling provides enough power to empty the water tank ten times...
Steward Novikoff-Priboy's battle-station on the Oryol was in the sickbay. When the big guns started, "the heavens resounded like an iron dome struck by Titans' hammers." The Russian shells were armor-piercing but often nonexplosive; the Japanese shells exploded on contact, started hundreds of fires on the Russian ships, which were heavily overdecorated with woodwork. The Japanese gunners concentrated their aim at the leading Russian ships; the Russians shot at anything they could see. First casualty was the Oslyabya. Pounded by six Japanese cruisers, her guns went silent one by one. The jar of each...