Word: burn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owing to a burn on his arm which the Bishop received recently, he is still carrying the injured member in a sling and will be unable to engage in the golf and tennis matches which he had anticipated...
...last week became an active member of the faculty of the Grand Central Art School. His cousin, Maxim, is now in Venice, treating a cardiac ailment and working on another book of those stories which, kindled from Anton Pavlovich Tchekov's great bonfire, have made his name burn like a sombre torch' across the world. Arshele Gorky admits the relationship. He himself paints still life. In his first newspaper interview he talked good sense...
Hottest Flame. Dr. Irving Langmuir of the General Electric Company described his discovery of a flame hotter than hydrogen burning in oxygen (oxy-hydrogen). He made atomic hydrogen burn in an atmosphere of molecular hydrogen. His hydrogen blowtorch melted tungsten wire like an icicle, indicating that its heat was at least 7,000° F. Playing on a sheet of chrome steel the flame left molten pools behind it. Significance: steel girders could be welded silently instead of noisily riveted;* the welds would not (as when an oxyhydrogen flame is used) be oxidized and thus weakened, they would be annealing...
...phrases were most original. To describe the fop of her day she invented or hit upon the significant epithet, "awless." She called sky "an ancient scroll." She knew what was meant when her gypsy crone said: "She will never be lonely while pushing sticks into fire and watching them burn away." One evening she wrote: "The secrets of life that are discovered from age to age are as hard to find as a knife lost in rushes." She sympathized with the American colonists and aroused by George Ill's banishment of traitorous Jack Wilkes...
...true. How could it not be true? Only when he is in the ring do those days come back. Then his brows blacken in a manner unbecoming to the hero of a sentimental cinema; his body, muscled like a panther cat's, seems to ignite with malice, to burn and flash; then his fists reach out, savagely, lethally, to destroy the weaving shape in front of him and get revenge for something he has just remembered, a wrong done, a score that must be evened, something that happened to him long...