Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than ordinarily recalcitrant over the question of minorities. He ironically suggested that Turkey should be the protector of racial minorities in the U. S. Said the wily Ismet: "The Turkish newspapers have the most ferocious accounts of lynchings of Negroes in the United States almost every week. You burn them at the stake. We stopped burning people two or three hundred years...
...been asserted that prizes, like political conventions, encourage safe mediocrity. The present Pulitzer awards in poetry and the novel hardly seem to bear out this statement. Miss Millay's lyrical advice to burn the candle at both ends is hardly the customary slogan of mediocrity ? Miss Gather has produced as distinguished and individual writing as any American in our time...
University B and C started as though they meant to burn each other out. Both were doing close to 40 at the start, and quickly jumped ahead of the University 150-pound crew which, although rowing well, could not keep pace with its heavier opponents. The seconds had better proportion to their stroke, and slowly pulled ahead so that after three quarters of a mile had been covered they were nearly half a length to the good...
Consider this: heavy crews invariably arrive at top speed slowly; Freshman crews invariably reach their maximum development early-and often "burn out" afterwards (take warning, Freshmen!); the University is very heavy; the Freshman crew is unusually uniform in height and weight, and is consequently able to get together quickly. Who can be sure how they will compare in two weeks...
...through the assistance of the young financier and by the happy invention of a new eyeglass clip that Mr. Pinney's shattered fortunes are providentially retrieved at the last moment. And it is also in large measure due to the little spark of pompous courage which continues to burn in his insignificant bosom. He is a contemptible figure, is Mr. Pinney. But he is not wholly ignoble...