Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deal, England, steel skeletons of houses were arising last week, were being fleshed with compressed cork, tegumented with an inch and a half of concrete from "cement guns." Slow to burn, sound proof, cheap and quick to build with unskilled labor, 25% easier to heat than brick, stone or timber, the cork abodes were hailed as a solution of the housing problem in industrial areas...
...earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland gave him hot biscuits, supper, country style; shelter for the night. It is not recorded whether he was set to watch the biscuits, whether, like that famed cottage guest, King Alfred, he allowed them to burn, was boxed on the ears...
Such a statement is a peculiar background for a violent rise in Baldwin common on the Stock Exchange, yet just this movement occurred. The cause lay in the announcement by resident Samuel M. Vauclain that the Baldwin Locomotive Co. had perfected a new Diesel oil-burning locomotive, which would burn the cheapest type of crude oil, and effect a saving in fuel bills of from 25 to 50% over coal-burning steam locomotives. The new engine has resulted from experiments conducted by Baldwin over . The past ten years. Disclaiming stores that the new Diesel locomotive would "revolutionize the locomotive industry...
...unfortunate probationers are doomed beyond respite. Those who have found favor in the eyes of the gods of University Hall now burn incense and take childish joy in comparing the marks of grace and distinction bestowed upon them. They rush to festivities; exult that the agony of suspense is over; and first realize that upon grades and hope of grades they have fashioned their lives for the last four weeks...
...reception of this document is bound to be even more amusing. Sunday schools will chant it in uneven chorus; Mencken will burn it with a violent hatesong; abread it will be read, if at all, with infinite self-complacence over the naivete of those Americans, Meanwhile, its authors are likely to wax prosperous in the Chatauquan manner...