Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night the road was lighted by fires set by the Allies and by the Germans themselves, who tried to burn what they could not carry...
...could jockey herself between Germany's desire for protection in her rear, and England and France's need for an ally to the east of the Nazis. For a year, between the signing of the Munich pact and the German invasion of Poland, Russia could afford to burn her candle at both ends. The quick demolition of Poland, followed by the demise of France, removed Hitler's need for protection on her Western Wall, and Russo German relations became strained...
...evening began with a talk by Sweetman describing the various began. He set off incendiaries to demonstrate the use of water, showing how to stead, stream will cause the bomb to burn very fast and scatter...
University students will be able to dry their clothes out on hot radiators and enjoy the comforts of a warm room as usual this winter. William G. Morse '39. University purchasing agent, revealed yesterday that fires would continue to burn in the furnaces as long as Old Man Winter walked the streets of Cambridge...
...whispered in their cafés while the outrageous Englishmen bounded up & down the narrow, stepped streets of Valletta, sweated at rugger, cricket, swam in the surf. Though there was never any outburst (the warm, damp sirocco was too enervating and the Maltese were too polite), neither did there burn in Britain's amber jewel any flame of devotion to the King. Not even when, in 1921, his Majesty granted self rule (within limits). The Governors and the governed lived in separate worlds, while many a Maltese cast wistful, restless eyes at Rome...