Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power of a bomb will depend not only on its size, but on its efficiency, which cannot be determined until at least one test bomb has exploded. There may be a limit beyond which it would not pay to add reactive materials. Very large bombs might burn as nuclear bonfires, wasting much of their effect upon space...
...confronting several variations of Roman Catholicism with modern unorthodoxy. The story concerns the reactions of several members of a small Irish town to the scandalous book of a local schoolmaster. The action centers about the local Canon, who, with classical dignity, decides the provincial efforts of the townspeople to burn the txe publically with malicious ceremony--but he dismisses the teacher. The balancing force in this conflict is Brigid, the Canon's maid, who is in communication with her namesake, St. Brigid, and who has a longing to become a nun. Although the play admits of no explicit and patent...
...salve the feelings of friends of the Red Indian was the last straw. Said he: "I protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons as we have come to love them...
...unworkable because a constitution only reflects the general will: if an association doesn't want Nomadic members and puts that opinion in its constitution, you can burn the constitution and you still won't elect Gypsies...
Suspense (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS). Robert Taylor in Slow Burn...