Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news. What he felt about his election, besides gratification, may have been that this time the company he takes in hand is in no hole. It owns many factories, its own asbestos mines. The Merseles genius will have a clear field to try and put fireproof ("try an' burn it") roofing on the whole U. S. without delay...
Donaghy starred at bat for Harvard with three hits out of three times at bat while Burn's diving catch of Campbell's liner over second base was the brightest spot in the afternoon's fielding...
Wood touched to white-hot, molten steel, bursts into flame. Last week in Cleveland the molten metal poured on shingles made of sawdust failed to burn them. They were shingles belonging to Dr. Paul G. Von Hildebrandt, German-American chemist, with a formula for impregnating a sawdust composition against rain, wear, flame. He can, he says, make fireproof bricks, tiles, sheets, at far less than the present cost of cement and metal. Angling for capital, he promised that the ingredients for his process could all be obtained plentifully within U. S. borders; that he would turn mounds of sawdust into...
...gaze of Pittsburgh's night-clubbers. Pittsburghers, righteously indignant, "canned" "Peaches," forced the cancellation of the contract. Meanwhile, Dr. Henry J. Schireson, Chicago plastic surgeon, surveyed the aforementioned nether limbs with interest; gossip said that "Peaches" agreed to pay him $10,000 to remove her acid burn scars and bring slender shapeliness to her amply-built legs...
...Fries said. "From what I can learn, it is the opinion of most people that chemicals are used in war simply to suffocate the opposing army or armies. This is quite untrue. The most effective chemical used during the World War was phosphorous, and it was used primarily for burning. Phosphorous was used to burn men, houses, and forests. In addition, however, it made a wonderful smoke-screen through which, not even those with the keenest eyes could see." Using an illustration General Fries said. "Imagine trying to shoot ducks through a dense fog, and you have the same problem...