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Word: blazes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that railroads are susceptible to smart merchandising. What is more, he did something about it. With other Western carriers in 1933, U. P. cut passenger fares as low as 1.7? a mile. Shortly a U. P. streamlined Diesel flyer smashed the transcontinental record by nearly 15 hr. in a blaze of publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: U. Progress | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

That would have been the end of Old Ludwig except that the Australian Labor Party is theoretically opposed to capital punishment and is actually and vehemently an enemy of black men because they are a source of cheap labor. Labor members of the Australian House of Representatives ignited a blaze of protest against the execution of Old Ludwig. To Labor the ''Sane Government" coalition of Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons replied that capital punishment is Australia's law, sharply adding that Labor seemed to want one law for blacks, another for whites. Finally the Government Ministers pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: Old Ludwig | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Here was a test of strength, a sign of returning vigour in the American masses, so the reactionaries, quick to quench spiritual fires wherever beginning to blaze, set to work. Mayor LaGuardia, already having flown his true colors as a traitor to the masses in the purge of Marcantonio, issued a few proclamations regarding Public Health, and tried to arrange parleys for peace, where naturally intelligence has an unfair advantage. All to delude the elevator boys to return to their Hell of button-pushing and servility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horns and Claws | 3/6/1936 | See Source »

...yard run there is lanky Al Hanlom whom Jaakko Mikkola has characterized as a brilliant runner. He should be good for a first place without even straining himself. The 300-yard dash is outstanding only for the calibre of the men in it on pro. The blue runners should blaze through here unless Mikkola is forced to call on Hanlon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN TRACK TEAM LEAVES TO MEET BLUE OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY | 2/15/1936 | See Source »

Whence comes this seeming prestige that vainglorious Lowell tower should blaze with incandescent light so many, many nights while Dunster, Adams, and Eliot towers carve but grey and humble silhouettes in the midnight sky? Whence comes the warrant for this lone, flamboyant panoply? Lowell House, is't not enough to curdle the bowels of the earth with the hellish bells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POINT OF HONOR | 2/13/1936 | See Source »

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