Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party of Swarthmore College scientists and their wives have reached Benkulen, in the Dutch East Indian island-continent of Sumatra. The wives are adapting themselves to the comforts of a miserable hill-perched village, while the scientists are setting up sky-scouring 'scopes. Nearby, anchored in the blaze of ocean, is the naval transport, Chaumont, nest of balloons, dirigibles, airplanes. Both the Swarthmore men and the U. S. Navy men are preparing for three weird minutes on Jan. 14, when the sun will be blackened, the earth move to the dance of cosmic shadows. The terror of chattering natives...
Next to McMillan, who contributed considerably more than his 200 pounds to Tiger football, Dignan will be the most sorely missed by the Tiger coaches next year. The Princeton leader ended his college career on the gridiron in a blaze of glory, and is already picked by many for the mythical All-American team this year...
...acuteness of youthful suffering is dismissed by the world because the suffering is temporary. Youth forgets its love affairs, but the fire burns deep. Perhaps in its very intensity it burns itself out. Young Woodley, written by John Van Druten (an English schoolmaster), depicts the time when the blaze is fiercest. Young Woodley has fallen in love with the pretty wife of his mathematics tutor...
...Harvard undergraduates, for in the fall of 1889, enthusiasm, ran high at a mass meeting when withdrawal from the Association was again voted and carried out. This time, however, the Yale game was continued, and the year 1890 saw the Crimson eleven finishing its season in a blaze of glory, winning 12 to 6 from one of the strongest teams of Yale history. A. J. Cumnock '91 was the Crimson leader...
When Foreign Minister Gregory Vassilievitch Tchitcherin is in Moscow it is not unusual for the windows of the Soviet Foreign Office to blaze until dawn. M. Tchitcherin is lank, indefatigable. Once an aristocrat and trained in the Tsarist diplomatic school, he has espoused the cause of the Soviets with a vehemence that drives his hard pushed subordinates to the last fringe of desperation...