Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finding only the low 400's there, he went upstairs, and there found the 500's. Downstairs again, he weaved through the rows of books until he found himself standing face to face with the door of the office he was looking for, except that there was a sturdy iron fence in between...
...self-education and enlightened help from others. One of the most eminent spastic paralytics in the U. S. is Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson of Manhattan's Neurological Institute (TIME, May 30, 1932). Once a convulsive cripple, an orphan at 18, Earl Carlson conquered his handicap by dint of iron determination, plowed through college and medical school, is now practically normal. He advises hundreds of mothers on what to do for their spastic paralytic children...
...increases range from 5% for agricultural products to 10% on iron & steel products. There are no changes in the rates for bituminous coal, lignite, coke, iron ore, fresh milk & cream and refrigerator service...
...this was recalled last week in London as Britain's big, slick Science Museum staged an exhibition called "One Hundred Years of Transatlantic Steam Navigation." By models and murals visitors were shown a century's changes from wood to iron and steel; from paddle wheel to screw, to multiple screws. Last paddle wheeler left the Atlantic in 1874, the first turbine arrived 20 years later. "Grandest failure" was the 18,914-ton Great Eastern, a five-funnel combined paddle and screw steamship, 680 feet long, built in 1858. Most vessels then carried about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern...
...Europe has the same political face as in 1914, it will probably react to it in the same way. Germany lacks colonies, so she claims, and economic necessities. In western Czechoslovakia are not only three million Germans but deposits of coal and iron. Sitting in Vienna and trying to soothe II Duce with the words "I shall never forget this day." Hitler must be wetting his lips over the proximity of Czechoslovakia. But, superb timer that he is, he will wait, it may be a month, it may be two before he again moves. Meanwhile, Italy will debate on whether...