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Word: burnes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz Lee.*- I had thought," continued the sabre-tongued Senator from the side of his mouth, "that I would like to go to heaven and commune with the spirits of Patrick Henry, Clay and Calhoun, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. But, like old Jube, I seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rebel Wish | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Just as the toiling masses have thus far invariably been betrayed by labor leaders sooner or later, so the peaceful majority of mankind have never yet found political leaders who did not ultimately conduct them into war, however reluctantly. Today Mr. Hull burns with righteous indignation at the gall and wormwood of the rearmament cup which all States are now brewing. So burned President Woodrow Wilson, and so to burn is in the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pillars of Peace | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Jump at Brae Burn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

Probably the best known of the local ski rendevous is the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton. This is but a fifteen or twenty minute drive from Harvard Square and offers two large open slopes, one with a fairly steep descent. There is a jump which gives leaps of sixty and seventy feet under normal conditions for those who prefer this type of skiing. There is also a toboggan chute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

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