Word: burners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literary rather than social. Sam Smith is more compelling, as a man than as a "message." And this is strange, for Author Norris writes with more purpose than distinction. Like William Dean Howells, dullness is dear to him. Yet out of a hazy, conventional reconstruction of the Welsbach-burner, balloon-sleeve, trust-forming era of U. S. life, Sam Smith achieves the form and force of actuality. He joins the great company of the memorably commonplace...
...POOR NUT-A cheerful college tale of the midnight oil burner who suddenly flared up as the champion of the quarter mile...
...giant unfinished hulk of the Lexington, the Navy's giant, speedy airplane carrier-to-be. There he was saluted by Captain Felipe Fleiss of the Argentine Navy, Commander of the battleship Rivadavia which (with the Moreno) is being converted from a coal to an oil burner at Fore River...
...ever afloat. Hitherto the Majestic, a British ship (formerly the Bismarck) was the largest vessel, with a registered tonnage of 56,551 and a length of 915.5 feet. The Shipping Board announces, however, that on account of alterations on the Leviathan-chiefly because of changing her from a coal burner to an oil burner-her tonnage is now 59,956, an increase of 5,674 tons over her previous rating. The Shipping Board also adds that the Leviathan is 950.7 feet long-which would mean that somehow she had grown 43 feet longer than her former length of 907.6 feet...