Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unit rushed through him like straws blown by a tornado, sturdy Frank Brown had strength enough to haul his stiffened left hand away from the X-ray tube to tug at his right hand frozen to the metal. The current gripped his right hand also. Both hands began to burn and stink...
...period covered is that of 1587 and the Armada. Old England's glory is landed to the skies in a not too provoking manner, and Queen Elizabeth is never spoken of as Good Queen Boss. Swords flash, ships burn, bolls ring, and the Ruler of the Wave triumphs again. Alexander Korda's film is billed as inferior to "There Goes My Girl," but such is not the case...
Last Saturday the teams were rained out. Yesterday the insatiable fates went as far as to burn a bridge on the New Haven Railroad over which the Eli nine was to travel...
...over one weekend fortnight ago, eight persons were killed and 40 injured in highway accidents. Declaring that some of these crashes were due to use of unsafe cars, automobile dealers in Indidnapolis concocted a stunt which would both emphasize safety and draw attention to themselves. They announced they would burn $75,000 worth of used cars at the fair grounds because the roads would be safer without them. At 8 p. m. Thursday evening last week the huge pile of jalopies was touched off while firemen and some 25,000 others looked on. It made a magnificent bonfire...
Chicago medical schools, which get their anatomical specimens from public institutions, burn their remains. That practice seems to be delicately tied up with a legendary incident which occurred before Illinois passed its law legitimizing the supply of cadavers to schools, and which many a Chicago doctor likes to relate. Two students of what is now Northwestern University snatched a body from a Wisconsin cemetery, dressed it, propped it between them on the seat of their buggy. On the way back to Chicago they stopped at a tavern for drinks. While they were inside two Rush (University of Chicago) medical students...