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Word: burnes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pola, a former Italian naval base, about 40,000 Italians were preparing to evacuate. Houses worth $20,000 were being offered for $200 or less. Shopkeepers were trying frantically to turn their stocks into cash. The Italians had openly threatened to burn the town down before leaving, and a very worried British major representing A.M.G. predicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Trieste Close-Up | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...takes off from reality, and then he is at his best. He tells of people with one eyebrow black and the other white, who cut up a sofa to make a fiddle, whose goats change sex, whose clocks strike 13, who drink so much they catch fire inside and burn to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Do You Do? | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Fuel and Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: O Tempora | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Cried a woman: "Thar's a burnin' mountain in the sky. Hit looks like a hillside on fire when ye burn a clearin' in the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The End of Kentucky | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Second biggest cause of atom deaths, said Captain Warren, was from flash burn caused by the blinding "atom light"-as bright "as though you had stepped up the intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death by Gamma Ray | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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