Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cold light." In the presence of famed members of the Academic des Sciences, he touched the wires of his 2,000-candle-power electric lamp and was no more harmed than if he had exposed his hand to the fiery spray of a holiday "sparkler." No shock nor burn resulted...
...have a group here that believes our form of government is the best ever devised by man. They want to purge its temples but they don't want to burn them down...
...June are indeed the months of manna. When the warm weather arrives, colleges and universities the country over turn to considerations of general improvements, special equipment, new buildings, and graduate schools. Yielding to the impulse of the season, they spread their blankets, like the Israelites, and burn candles to the gods of generosity...
Miss Glenna Collett of Providence won the Women's Eastern Golf Championship for the third time in succession at the Brae Burn Country Club. Scores for the leading four...
...satisfy the gods of the box office. When he and his wife are on the verge of starvation, his mother-in-law harangues him into taking a lucrative position as editor of the more crimson type of magazine. They are now in comfort, but his yearning soul threatens to burn him up. He wants to do the finer and better things. Fortunately he is stopped in time. Discouraged by lack of recognition in the sphere he covets, he shoots himself where the brain is assumed to be. His body is brought in on a stretcher by the police...