Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efforts of suave diplomatists to weld Anglo-Saxonism into a case-hardened ideal are as a potato to a sitting hen in the face of the deft strokes of irresponsible, irrepressible caricaturists and others. Charles Dickens, to use the words of Carlyle, caused "all Yankee- doodle-dom" to blaze up "like one universal soda bottle," when he ventured to criticize some aspects of 100% American democracy. Such are the repercussions of a single...
...Mystic Can Endure the Blaze...
...lines diverging; the mystic is the man who can turn around and see the center. He finds himself and his work to be one; he has found the unity of life. The highest degree of mystic is he who can look at the centre and endure its blaze and can come to the realization that he and God are one. To turn around and see the center--that is the problem for you to solve...
...Greenman 1G.B. and M. T. Greenman '26 discovered the blaze, which apparently started in the basement, while they were "cramming for a mid-year They raced through the house shouting fire," awaking eight other students who were sleeping and entirely oblivious of the danger...
...except for that one rash touch. Away they went-a flash of silk, a huddle of bobbing heads at the turn, one, two, pulling away, animated toys all; then the stretch, the crowd ris- ing, a tatoo of hoofs-F. A. Burton's Wise Counsellor first; second, Big Blaze; third, Sun Flag; fourth, Initiate; fifth, Epinard, limping, staggering. A quarter crack in his hoof, though bound that morning, had broken wide open; the pain had killed his spirit, made him lose for the fourth time. Lamed, he will race no more in the United States, said Trainer Leigh speaking...