Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plain as pikestaffs to most European observers were these facts: i) Now that Rightist General Franco has taken the iron mines and smelters of the Basque country, upon which Britain relies for many of her sinews of war (see below), His Majesty's Government are less favorably disposed than ever toward the Spanish Leftists, and this week official London was considering whether it may be "obliged by circumstances" to grant the Rightists diplomatic recognition. 2) The panic in Soviet Russia over wholesale "treason" and the shaky position of the French franc (see p. 17) were major indirect factors working...
...Meanwhile at Bilbao and in the 15-mile swath of Rightist advance last week the Leftists had lost the richest iron mines, the largest smelters and steel mills and some of the finest munitions plants in all Spain. As any sophisticate of the armament business would expect, correspondents found that the manufacture of projectiles had not even been interrupted. The whirling lathes whined on, turning out gleaming 75-millimetre shells which would now be paid for by the Rightists, whereas a few days before they had been paid for by Leftists. Not only did Rightists attacking planes never bomb these...
...William Donald Urry of Massachusetts Institute of Technology read a paper on the ages of iron meteorites. Ages are measured in the same way as those of terrestrial rocks; by the amount of decomposition of radioactive material. "A very young iron meteorite," said Dr. Urry, "is 100,000,000 years old. The oldest is 2,900,000,000 years old." The last figure is just within the upper limit commonly given by geologists for the age of the earth and the solar system. Dr. Urry believes that iron meteorites are the debris of planets which have broken up within...
When a veterinarian named Solomon Shapera took a house in Eastchester, N. Y. three months ago, he made his presence known by placing upon his lawn a life-size statue of a St. Bernard dog painted in lively colors. Despite the fact that the statue is not iron but stone, the neighborhood named the dog "Iron Mike," but did not suppose there was much that could be done about it. Some people said that since it was Dr. Shapera's business to treat dogs, the statue was an advertisement and therefore violated a district zoning ordinance. The veterinarian retorted...
Married. Ralph Heyward Isham, New York financier and one of the world's foremost authorities on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell; to Christine, Viscountess Churchill; in London. Expert Isham made his greatest find in Malahide Castle, Ireland, two months ago when he discovered in an old iron trunk Dr. Johnson's diary from 1765 to 1784 (TIME. April...