Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that after 10½ months on his stomach in an electric oven Luby J. Doty, 27, of Memphis, was still alive last week. He had burned his back and legs in a motor car accident. As everyone knows, when one-third or more of a person's body surface is injured by burn or scald,* almost invariably that person dies. Luby J. Doty may be an exception. He had survived the dangerous burns...
...burn is caused by dry heat of 140° F. or more, a scald by moist heat of 120° F. or more. Their injuries to flesh are identical...
...therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn...
...Daniel Uriburu (nephew). 2) That the first public meeting last week of 10,000 of Dr. Irigoyen's adherents was dampened by rain, then dispersed by firemen who threatened to souse the already damp Irigoyenists. 3) That Critica was privileged to reprint an "Invitation to witness the burning of the Critica building" issued by the new Government's adherents. Within a few hours after this alleged expose, the Government censor passed a news cable carrying a "public announcement" by the Government's adherents that they would burn the Critica building that night...
...championship: "I'm sure I'll win the title but I hope they don't press me too hard in doing it. ... I've got a long ways to go yet . . . Olympics, and four years of running at college. ... I don't want to burn the motors out. . . ." Despite these assurances, the crack milers who had beaten him so handily a year ago had no desire to try again last week. There were nine other entries but only two of them-runners whose prestige could suffer nothing by defeat-appeared for the start...