Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen of their men to be captured. In the wood on the edge of their ranch they made their stand, defied police, troops and airplanes to come and get them. As a final gesture the besiegers set fire to the wood. When the green trees would not burn, they shrugged their shoulders and went back to La Paz. Argentina made a formal protest to Uruguay that the revolt was hatched on Uruguayan soil. When Dr. Adolfo Guemes and Dr. Jose Luis Cantillo, Radical Party politicians, reached Buenos Aires from Montevideo they were promptly arrested, soon released. Onetime President Hipolito Irigoyen...
...with the white boys and wears store clothes. It is he who murders the white girl and brings the posse, hunting him with hounds, guns and hate, to the cabin. They catch Solomon, and while he agonizingly calls for his family which huddles inside the shack, the white men burn him to death with his mother's cherished stovewood...
...Paul's opinion that it is better to marry than to burn. If you have taken his advice and been burned to boot, Lawyer Drummond's book may show you how to save something from the fire. Some preachers think U. S. marriage is in a bad way. Most lawyers know U. S. divorce is. Because there are no Federal divorce laws in the U. S., because one State's legal meat is another State's poison, not even an expert can work out every divorce problem in his head...
Said Professor Knipp: "I am continuing these tests. It seems like electrodeless cold light. If I may freely speculate, some day these afterglow lamps may be made that would burn for six months, at no cost of electricity...
...have suspected that the student body is becoming a little bored with football. The sweaty exorcists (who in later life become go-getters and promoters) are having less and less success in the eastern schools at their self imposed jobs of routing the students out of their dormitories to burn red fire in the square and mutter gibberish in union the night before a so called big game. This Medieval hocus-pocus known as "Getting Behind the Team," is being left behind in favor of an attitude which, in itself, may prove the most effective balance wheel to the sport...