Word: burn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Blaik had his red-hot Big Green work out in the Stadium shortly after Harvard. There was a little photo snatching, and then the boys retired to the Belmont Country Club for the night. The Crimson team will go to Brae Burn for the evening...
Several weeks ago, when the infection following the burn had abated, Hoffman went to Hagerstown, and asked Dr. Paul Nelson Fleming if he would ever be able to see again. Dr. Fleming examined his eyes, discovered that the fragile, shell-like corneas were completely useless, that each lens and iris had grown together in a tangled mass. He told Hoffman that he could only experiment, but Hoffman was willing to try anything. At Washington County Hospital Dr. Fleming removed the scarred cornea from Hoffman's right eye, straightened out the lens and iris as best he could. No human...
Time Marches backwards through the European scene of the past decade in an interesting reel which might well be called "Downing Street Blues," and which is considerably better than the racetrack melodrama "Speed to Burn," also on the current bill...
News that motor trucks can now be made to run on kindling wood instead of gasoline reached Joseph Stalin some time ago, fired the Dictator's keen brain. The system was pioneered in Italy and last year Benito Mussolini ordered all busses in the Kingdom converted to burn wood...
...guinea (about $5) to each. First guinea goes to rebuild a women's college, is accompanied by a long letter containing her views on education. If the college is to be rebuilt on the old lines, she says, her guinea might as well go for matches to burn it down. She would like it to be a "poor college," with no chapels, lectures or degrees, made of wood instead of stained glass and ivy, teaching music, literature, conversation, cooking. But she knows that the graduates of colleges must get jobs; she is too familiar with 19th-Century methods...