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Word: burners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Sam Smith | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...POOR NUT-A cheerful college tale of the midnight oil burner who suddenly flared up as the champion of the quarter mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Aug. 17, 1925 | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Sivampscott Week | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A 'Growing Leviathan | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

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