Word: burn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest available figures). In 1906, when the travelling public was much smaller, 359 were killed. Steel coaches, which in large part have replaced wooden coaches on the major railroads, largely explain the difference.* In 1906 a train wreck meant a holocaust? passengers mangled in cars telescoped and burning. In 1926 a wreck meant simply a bad accident. Steel may twist in a crash. It does not splinter nor burn. Pioneer in equipping passenger trains with all-steel cars was the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1907 it has bought no wooden ones. What wooden cars it owned then, it has gradually been...
...heart again last week. For a quarter century the light in Hollis 15 was a signal to Harvard generations that the wit of the Yard was receiving his friends, was perhaps also giving one of his famous impromptu readings. Last week news came that the light will continue to burn. Professor Copeland will keep his rooms, will occasionally lecture-will inevitably "read aloud from a book." Wrote Author Conrad Aiken in the Harvard Crimson: ". . . One of those resignations of which the acceptance can only be official...
...Harvard Lampoon has just announced the election of the following officers: Alan Russell Black-burn Jr. '29, of Flushing, N. Y., President; Philip Hichborn '29, of Washington, D. C., Ibis; Henry Harrison Proctor '29, of Boston, Treasurer; and James De Normandie '29, of Boston, Secretary...
...devotion which these men have always retained for him. They ask nothing better than that the light in the window on the top floor of Hollis Hall, which has been the signal to many generations of Harvard undergraduates that "Copey" is receiving his friends, will burn indefinitely and that even though retired from active service in the University. "Copey" will be "at home" to them until he has lived out the full fourscore years and ten which was the span of life of his ancestors. New York Times...
Coach Lawrence Conley will again take charge of the University boxing classes, from which he has been absent as a result of a burn that he recived while fighting a fire which threatened to destroy his home. During his absence Conley secured an assistant to conduct the classes...