Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also elected were: Ulrich E. Kruse 1G, Physics; Basil Mott, Public Administration; Richard N. Schwab 2G, History; Richard C. Sterne 2G, English; Norman L. Thoburn 1G, Education; Joseph L. Tryon 2G, Economics; and Robert P. Wheatley 3Dv., Divinity. Diana Burn, Chemistry, was elected N.S.A. representative...
...published a cartoon picturing vacant electric chairs. The caption: "No Compromise-Supreme Penalty." As mob violence swept the county, headlines appeared which Jackson thought inflammatory. Examples: the Sentinel's FLAMES FROM NEGRO HOMES LIGHT NIGHT SKY IN LAKE COUNTY, the Tampa Tribune's NIGHT RIDERS BURN LAKE NEGRO HOMES. Although the sheriff announced that the men had confessed, said Jackson, the "confession" itself was never introduced in evidence. Moreover, said he, the trial court had thrown out, as irrelevant, evidence that the defendants had been brutally beaten during questioning. But newspapers, in reporting existence of a "confession...
...headquarters, Magsaysay pounded the table so hard that the ashtray bounced, and barked orders: "Put more men in and around Manila. I want every suspicious person searched, and every suspicious house raided. Get every soldier in the provinces alerted. Keep pounding on all known Huk lairs. Burn the Huks out of Candaba swamps. There are 8,000 Huks in the country. That makes five Huks to each one of our platoons. Let us make this week the liquidation week...
...simply an attempt to demonstrate his slogan-Peron Gets Things Done. It could be a move to increase his international prestige, or to draw some attention away from the La Prensa incident. But in any event, assuming that Peron's scientists have not really discovered what makes the sun burn, the atom announcement brings the Argentine satrap a little bit closer to the scientific imperialism of the Nazis and Communists...
...good, grey New York Times settled the matter in its own exhaustive way. It tried the burning qualities of both London's and New York's Times, described the tests in a deadpan report. "They were made in three phases: 1) burning rate of a tightly rolled sheet of newsprint, 2) burning rate of a loosely crumpled sheet, and 3) determinations of the advance of a burning edge on a single, unfolded sheet." Found the Times: "In all three comparisons, the London paper's newsprint appeared to burn equally fast, and probably faster than the New York...