Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certified an all-inclusive bargaining agency for a whole area, employers the country over wondered whether, for example, the Cotton-Textile Institute might some day be compelled to deal for all its members, unionized and nonunionized, with C. I. O.'s Textile Workers Organizing Committee; or the American Iron and Steel Institute, including President Tom Girdler's non-union Republic Steel Corp., with Steel Workers Organizing Committee. NLRB spokesmen declared the West Coast situation was unique, said no such precedent had been established...
...Europe will be decided here. This country is a natural and necessary point for European equilibrium. If this position is given up all of Central Europe is gone." Bismarck put the same thing more succinctly years before. "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe," said the Iron Chancellor...
...view of thousands of U. S. summer days at thousands of U. S. Kamp Kare-Frees -the crude japeries of the camp's recreational director, the oily friendliness of the proprietor, the wreckage caused by a thunderstorm on the night of a Japanese lantern fiesta, the iron insistence with which a tipsy party marches up and down singing "Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Off to Work...
...comparing it with one of the moon. He has always had a passion for making apparatus out of any odd piece of junk that came to hand. On one occasion he made a telescope mounting out of an old bicycle. On another, he obtained a 20-ft. length of iron pipe, about six inches in diameter, which he intended to use as a spectroscope tube. There were cobwebs in the pipe which had to be cleaned out. Dr. Wood obtained a cat, put the cat in the pipe, closed up that end by laying a board against...
...United States Senate yesterday demonstrating Japan's dependence upon America for the raw materials of war. From us she buys 60 per cent of her oil, 90 per cent of her copper, 91 per cent of her automobiles and parts, more than 40 per cent of her pig iron, and nearly 50 per cent of her machinery and engines. In the light of our sanctimonious concern for the welfare of the Chinese, these facts are amazing indeed...