Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIPPERT Directing Editor The Iron Age Pittsburgh...
Hidden Papers. When he died in 1795, Boswell left over a million words of manuscript in a huge iron chest at Auchinleck Castle, the family seat in Scotland. His respectable heirs decided that Boswell had embarrassed the family enough during his lifetime, and kept his papers hidden. Eventually the papers moved, with Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, Lord Talbot de Malahide, to Malahide Castle in Ireland. Famed U.S. collector Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach cabled Lord Talbot an offer of $250,000 for the Malahide Papers. Said Lord Talbot: "Who is this person? Please ask him not to correspond...
...tons of Italian lemons, oranges, pears, apples, wheat flour, rice, olive oil. Italy's textile shipments reached an annual value of more than 2.5 billion lire. In return, Germany sent to Italy between 12 and 15 million tons of coal and more than half a million tons of iron and steel products...
...Government claimed, a leftist international brigade including men recruited from all over Europe was gathering in Albania. While the U.S. Congress delayed in voting the aid to Greece which President Truman had called for three months ago, Communists were acting to split Greece, bring the northern part within the Iron Curtain...
Upshot: California's atom smashers have thus far produced some 100 new isotopes* of atoms to add to the 450 previously known. Among them: two new forms of radium, and an iron isotope (atomic weight: 52) lighter than any iron ever before found. The physicists think that some of their new isotopes may be useful in medicine and research. But most of the isotopes, like the bombarded atom itself, are very unstable...