Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the hero manufacturers (the coaches) are hard at work. No one of them makes a hero purposely; they make good football players who will help to win games. Too bright a hero steals most of the glory from his college; all of it from his coach. Though stars burn out quickly, the quieter light of coaches burns steadily in the football background. Who now knows the names of Russell Lloyd or J. T. Haxall?* But who does not know of Robert C. Zuppke (Illinois), Hugo Bezdek (Penn State), Glenn Warner (Stanford), William W. Roper (Princeton), Gilmour Dobie (Cornell), Fielding...
According to Mr. Samuel, it was all right for U. S. people, with "wealth to burn," to indulge in the "habit," but he "earnestly" hoped that "the honorable gentlemen whom I am now addressing" would see to it that the practice was limited; for, said he, goods so bought "neither earn their cost nor redeem themselves out of earnings," and sales so made are "a drug to trade...
Throughout the land the ignorant are toiling over puzzles, prize contests, "cinema titles," "Presidents' faces." Lamps burn in many garrets long after the day's work is finished while slaves to the dream of puzzle riches ponder and strive. Seduced by the promises of advertisement and feature contests, (arranged by canny publishers to force-feed circulation), the slaves work endlessly. Earnest, stupid, they know not that they have scarcely one chance in one thousand to win the prize...
...week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf to see the kiln in action. He liked it; secured the U. S. rights...
...Noyes believes that "the sun of the new world" has broken through Europe's clouds and will burn "our blue devils to blue birds." He sees...