Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When capitalistic farmers have nowhere to sell their produce and are compelled to burn or throw their grain into the water, and when the industrial capitalists, owing to the same fact, are compelled to cut down production, then a cause is easily created for humanitarian action and for philanthropy. . . . We, therefore, quite understand the noble feelings of Mr. Hughes, and do not doubt the humane feelings of the American Government...
...Poison gases have their value in peace times," said Captain Phillips. "There is one case of which I know when five sheriffs checked 3,000 striking miners, who intended to burn the colleries, just by liberating tear gas, thrown from hand grenades...
...wrath against women's colleges in general, when he was asked to contribute to the Adelphi College endowment fund. Mr. See felt that colleges were responsible for "smoking, drinking, cosmetics, French heels, and all other flapperisms among young women", and the only ways out in his opinion was to burn them all to the ground. Then President Butler of Columbia complained in his annual report against "the spirit and temper of journalism, which may perhaps be fairly described as day-to-dayness," and which has "notably invaded American education to its grave undoing...
...been an unprecedented importation of coal from Great Britain; so great, in fact, that Boston has had to stop importing it. The British coal, however, was bituminous, of which there is at present no scarcity in Boston; although, in default of even this, the rest of Massachusetts has to burn wood...
Wiping out their last year's defeat of 9-0 at the hands of the Engineers, the Crimson golf team won their match with M. I. T. at Brae Burn yesterday afternoon by the score of 7-2. Jones, playing second for the University, shot at 78, while Schley defeated Baker with a 76, the best total of the afternoon...