Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leather fire hats were stolen from the ladder wagon while it was stopped in front of the Georgian. The firemen, who fought the blaze above the coffee urns with heads uncovered, came out to find their leather headgear gone. The trail led plausibly enough one block over to the Pudding Clubhouse on Holyoke street. No fire hats could be found there at a late hour last night. The fireman was told that the period of the play was 1850. He went away from there...
...Francisco's huge-domed Temple Emanu-El is a bright Byzantine touch on Arguello Boulevard. The coruscant half-globe catches the sun's rays, seems to blaze with its own light. On an especially sunny day, last week, when the dome was very bright 600 Jews of the "reformed" faith gathered underneath it. One of them, glancing at the synagog, quoted "How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob; thy dwelling places, O Israel." Thus opened the 31st Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
...Literary Digest ever dull or heavy? Not for a minute! It's aflame with interest on every page. Through the electric blaze of night and the white light of day the Literary Digest stands close to the flaming forge of life, and out of the glowing heat of a world's mighty labors and strivings-its thrilling adventures and achievements, its heroism, its drama, and its passionate discussions-it brings you, week by week, each burning deed and thought...
...hills that frosty night, huddled in their mantles about a tiny blaze, shepherds were watching their sheep. A sudden glory fell about them, and a shape of beauty stood before them and said: "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born ... a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Then for a moment all around stood a multitude of heavenly figures crying: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace...
Twenty years ago a red blaze scarred the night, and eventually came reports that a great meteorite had fallen somewhere in Yenissey province, destroying a great expanse of forest. Several expeditions failed to find it, and then the World War put an end to them. Last year Professor Kulik penetrated the wilderness, found traces; and last summer at the head of another expedition he was successful...