Word: burn
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Houston, who is from Haverhill and 16 Quincy Street, was captain of the 1949 varsity football squad. He also wrestled heavyweight on the varsity in 1947 and was undefeated in 1948. This term the 24-year-old married veteran received the Francis Harden Burn Scholarship for his combined athletic and Scholastic prowess. He concentrates in Government and hopes to attend law school...
...Burn-Out. Plutonium is fissionable and a fine nuclear fuel, but the first reactors did not produce enough of it to replace the U-235 consumed. So their nuclear fuel gradually "burned out," leaving U-238 as a sort of ash. Thus, the reactors of the early atomic age could utilize only a very small part of the uranium fed into them...
...weeks passed, Laradon Hall began to win a few small victories. It cured nine-year-old Billy of pyromania by letting him burn the rubbish each day, until gradually ("Aw, I don't wanna") he lost his interest in lighting fires. Another boy had a mania for stealing keys. So Mrs. Calabrese bought a whole batch of keys for Harold and gave him one whenever he deserved a reward. Now Harold has a pile of keys and has stopped stealing them...
Harbury's colleagues were puzzled that the relatively mild shock he received killed him. "Many of us have taken greater shocks," Chaffee said. Harbury bad only a slight burn on the finger and he wasn't held to the line at all. There was just a flash...
...York Daily News reported "Sweaty exorcists are having less and less success . . . at the self imposed job of routing students out of their dormitories to burn red fire in the Square and mutter gibberish in unison the night before a so-called big game." The Daily News as right, for it has been spirits not spirit that have typified football weekends in the past two decades. Before the Yale game in the year of the News article the Harvard Provision Company advertised special scotch for the big game at $2.89 a fifth. A Crimson of the early '30's reported...