Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stationary engines, switching locomotives, tractors, trucks and buses. These two, mixed with oxygen, are cheaper than acetylene as a fuel for welding torches. Since they vaporize easily, they are good refrigerants. Some consumers use the same gallon of propane first as a chemical solvent, next as a refrigerant, finally burn it as a gas fuel...
Doctors, nurses and stalwart male attendants treated him like a spoiled child. He objected to being politely addressed as Mr. Seabrook by people who were deaf to his complaints, objected to having the light burn in his room all night, objected more loudly when attendants removed the bathrobe he had used to shade the light...
...against the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill." Senator Schwellenbach: "How did it happen your acquaintances were limited to the first letters of the alphabet?" Herron (admitting he had mentioned using a "barrel of kerosene"): "I was just joking, of course. Just like you might say you were going to burn your house to keep from paying taxes." O'Brien (asked whether he had destroyed all his papers on the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill) : "Yes, I set them aside." "Where?" "In the waste basket, Mr. Beach told me we had no further use for the papers." Beach (admitting that he had telephoned...
...policy on the soldiers' bonus, a yes-and-no attitude toward Caesar, who wanted to change the constitution. He left the uncomfortable middle ground to denounce Catiline, in one of the greatest pieces of invective known to history, but Catiline's crimes were great: he planned to burn Rome, abolish debt and share the wealth by taking over the property of political antagonists. In the warfare between Caesar and Pompey, Cicero sided first with Pompey, became neutral, chose Pompey again, again became neutral, got on the losing side just before it lost. By that time he had antagonized...
...Ethiopia-snatching war, thus giving other statesmen every opportunity to prove their humanitarianism by trying to stop him. II Duce went to the length of publicly demonstrating a compound produced by Italian chemists to be strewn by Italian airplanes on the soil of Ethiopia to sear and burn the proverbially bare feet of Emperor Power of Trinity's savage troops. At the demonstration a photographer trod on the stuff, was picked up by Italian soldiers and rushed to a watering trough into which the scorched leather soles of his shoes were thrust...