Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against hard winds, heavy seas and part of the time through fog, receiving orders radio-telephoned twice a day from Rome by grizzled, dynamic Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano whose handsome young son Count Galeazzo Ciano is Premier Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly twice as much oil as on an ordinary crossing, push the speed of the Rex up higher than a liner had ever steamed before and win for Italy at one stroke the two most coveted Atlantic records-fastest crossing, longest...
During the whole voyage tall, patrician, spear-bearded Captain Francesco Tarabotto of the Rex snatched scarcely two hours sleep out of each 24, constantly paced the bridge. Below decks the four turbines of 130,000 rated horsepower and the 14 boilers which burn 700 tons of oil a day to drive the Rex at her usual 26 knots were devouring 1,100 tons. As jovial, ruddy Chief Engineer Luigi Risso turned on more & more steam, pushed up the pace from the Rex's fast norm to a terrific, record average speed of 28.92 knots both officers and passengers noticed...
...liked his calling. Apprenticed in a Paris patisserie, young Pierre found the work hard and long, the food scanty. But he was a good worker, got ahead. Developing an understanding for the oven, he discovered that he could read while watching it and, un like King Alfred, not burn his cakes. When Anarchist Emile Henry's bomb exploded 50 yards from his cellar workroom (Feb. 12, 1894) it made Hamp begin to wonder whether he wanted to stay a pastry cook all his life...
Across the first fairway at St. Andrews runs Swilken Burn, the brook which has cooled the heels and heated the tempers of more expert golfers than any other in the world. Into Swilken Burn last week Craig Wood played his second shot of the playoff, a shot which, more than any other, helped decide the championship. Rather than waste a stroke, he took off his shoes and stockings, waded into the water with his niblick and played the ball. It landed near the edge of the green but Wood took three to hole out. Still rattled, he had another...
Other loafers came running, gaped, pointed, shouted, and threatened to burn the church down. Police were called, then Republican Guards and the Fire Department before the riot ended and the church was saved. Perspiring police explained that that scrawl had been on the church for 20 years, was not supposed to be King Alfonso at all but the greatest bullfighter of modern times, swarthy, limping Juan Vincente Belmonte, now retired...