Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabama Power Co., cooperating with the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the $500,000 test, was donating 500,000 tons of coal, willing to see it all go up in smoke and flame. The initial rate of burn-up was only 50 tons a day. The test would probably go on for a year...
...proved possible to burn such vast amounts of coal without mining it, engineers foresaw these advantages...
...first 300-ft. stretch. The underground temperature went up to 900° F. Later it might go as high as 3,000° F. No immediate attempt was made to produce a useful, combustible gas: the first thing was to see how steadily the coal could be made to burn. Later, hot air, steam or oxygen could be fed into Borehole No. 1 to make a variety of gases with different chemical and thermal properties...
...Their Birthdays, may not be for everybody, but it is a fair example of good Capote: "By now it was almost nightfall, a firefly hour, blue as milkglass; and birds like arrows swooped together and swept into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit, got up in a little white skirt like a powderpuff and with strips of gold-glittering tinsel ribboning her hair, seemed, set against the darkening all around, to contain this illuminated quality . . . She stood that way for a good long while, and Aunt...
Otherwise, the locals were completely outclassed by Coach Bob Kiphuth's masterful tutees. There were no scintillating times, probably because the Blue-clad swimmers never had to burn up the pool to win. Even after the first race, nobody honestly thought Harvard would give the Elis much of a fight. Yale has a collection of outstanding swimmers and the Crimson did as well as it was expected to against them...