Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divine punishment for such wholesale annihilation of natural resources may be only delayed but the fact was that Brazil last week was enjoying an undeniable boom. By the light of burning coffee mounds, which when once ignited may burn for weeks, buildings were going up in the City of São Paulo at the rate of 500 per month. Cement mills were grinding 24 hours per day. Flour and sugar mills were unable to fill orders. Brazil is still a one-crop country but the Government's rigid control of foreign exchange has acted as a protective tariff...
...apparently the legal geniuses that burn in Langdell prefer to offer their ideas to the government, perhaps in an effort to bring some order out of the chaos that rules our life. Sad Indeed is it to see our youth of today go without the teachings of the great, but, oh, perhaps it is more valuable for the masters to attempt to teach their findings to those who feel that brains, as such, can run a government...
...calmly announced that railroad electrification was already obsolete, that the Diesel engine was the locomotive of the future. On that score, too, Mr. Sinclair had a ready answer: "What's the difference whether you drink Scotch or bourbon"?a reference to the fact that U. S. railroads already burn some 2,000,000,000 gal. of fuel oil per year...
...Youths, do you not feel the spirit of your fathers that aroused them to fight against that foreign doctrine?Christianity? Does not your heart burn to renew this struggle? Seize the weapon of your fathers and conquer with the sword the spirit of your future...
...White House should burn to the ground this week, citizens of Helena will read about it in their own two newspapers. If such an event had happened during the past three months, the highly literate citizens of Montana's capital (pop. 11,803) would have had to get their news elsewhere...