Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student thanked her and went in. The first painting was a portrait of a matador. One eye was green and the other was orange. The student turned to the bric-a-brac. There was a woman's show, a brick, and a twisted piece of iron. On a table across the room was a pamphlet, and the student walked over, laying odds that it was one of Gertrude Stein's little jobs. He picked it up and read the title, "Annual Report of the President to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University...
While the world's blatant headlines were yammering as though Germany had already swallowed Austria politically, economic alignment-of far greater.immediate importance to both countries-was discussed. To Austria German industry looks hungrily for iron and copper (see map, p. 21) and the Reich can use some Austrian timber. To Austria-which was lost from many of her sources of wealth by the post-War partition of her empire-Germany can offer wider economic horizons if Economic Plan Dictator Goring chooses, and not otherwise. That the two nations may form a customs union is now highly probable. Since...
...they will not use or carry away the metallic meteorites which have been found in abundance in and near the crater. These fragments, ranging from a few ounces to 1,400 lb., constitute the majority of the metallic meteorites recovered anywhere in the world. They show about 92% iron, 6% nickel, 2% of other matter, and this is taken by scientists as a fair sample of the main body...
Their pre-publication office was a room in an ancient two-story frame house on Manhattan's East 18th Street. Between their desks stood a large iron kettle-about the size and shape used by African cannibals for the boiling of missionaries...
...winter quarters. Imprudently disregarding warning signs, he leaned against the bars of Gargantua's cage to rest. Gargantua reached through, got no toe hold but wrenched Circusman North's left arm into the cage, bit & wrung it until Trainer Richard Kroner, pounding the gorilla with an iron stake, distracted its slow attention...