Word: blazed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...research arsonists (George E. Ferguson, Leopold Scheflan) found three distinct layers of gases present in their burning room, "one at the ceiling, one on the floor, and an intermediate layer which consisted of more nearly pure air than either of the other two." A few moments of blaze, however, churns the layers together...
...Louis, the Pine Lawn fire department answered a summons to a blaze on Glen Avenue, discovered the fire to be in a garage owned by a man who had declined to subscribe $1.25 a year to the fire department, silently watched the building burn to the ground...
Northwestern's child prodigies, who were selected in a blaze of glory and then carefully cloaked from vulgar inquiry, have come once more, and in a very fitting manner, to the attention of all. The senior of their number, now seventeen, has just been elected to Phi-Beta Kappa, with a truly prodigious grade average and amid appropriate eclat. Northwestern seems to feel that this vindicates the essential wisdom of her experiment, and even Dr. Flexner declares that he is reminded of his old dream of a prodigy high school in New York...
...swept up to the great square gilded cupola of the Reichstag, as famous through Germany as is the dome of the Capitol in Washington among U. S. citizens. Soon the cupola was a glowing hodge-podge of incandescent girders. Every fire engine in Berlin was called out before the blaze was under control. Whatever the national election result this Sunday, it will be a long time before the Reichstag Deputies have a proper place...
...after the Atlantique's hulk reached Cherbourg last week fire broke out at Le Havre aboard the 22-year-old France, recently withdrawn from trans-Atlantic service by the French Line as "too old." Le Havre firemen dashed aboard at 2:30 a. m., put out the blaze after two hours of smart work. At Saigon in French Indo-China the French liner Angkor was held up by a cracked propeller blade...