Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woolen mills. Into the prison yard poured thousands of screaming, shouting, swearing prisoners, cowed by the flames, tempted to dash for freedom. Troops, state and federal, augmented the prison guard, pricked the crazy mob into sullen obedience with bayonets. Fire chiefs threatened to let the whole penitentiary burn down unless the warden would guarantee to protect their men. Thousands of Columbus citizens milled around on the fringe of the death-laden spectacle...
...order, sugar is now the by-product in some places where cane is planted to yield the board material. Cornstalks are used to produce paper and a kind of lumber, "Maizewood"' (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928). Straw, virtually valueless as a fertilizer. has always been a problem. Farmers burn a large percentage of the 50 million tons produced each year. Some is being used (250.000 tons) to produce an insulating board whose heat conductivity is comparable to balsa wood and cork. Also from straw an artificial lumber will soon be produced which will have tensile strength of hickory. The current...
...Stand still!" bellowed the orderlies. "No, it doesn't burn! It's good for you!" Suddenly a little boy screamed sharply, "I cannot see! It burns, it burns...
...document room, tucked away behind corridors, was hard to reach. Firefighters scaled the walls, fought the flames downward through the roof. Cameramen's flashlights added to the radiance of the scene. Senators. Congressmen, Justices of the Supreme Court hustled "up the hill" from dinner to see their workshop burn...
...Meteors. Patient count and systematic estimation indicated to Iowa's Charles Clayton Wylie that 24 million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere daily. The dim ones, and almost all are dim, become visible about 75 mi. from earth's surface and burn out quickly. The bright ones explode about 15 mi. up. Relatively few fragments strike land...