Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only because the average U. S. citizen is unfamiliar with it is lignite not more widely used in the U. S. During the War the government asked Dakota citizens to burn lignite in their furnaces as an economy measure. Now coal dealers can scarcely make Dakotans accept anything else...
...sect which the Dominion government welcomed as settlers 30 years ago. The Doukhobors are thrifty and healthy. The Doukhobors are peace-loving. But they have ideas of their own and some of them are fanatics. When they do not want to send their children to the government schools, they burn the schoolhouses. When a hot summer sun sends heat waves simmering from the baked ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan, denounce capital and marriage laws, are called "Dukes" and "Duchesses...
...Peter. Such tiny fragments of paper will readily burn in Hell...
...third and outer blanket, the Heaviside layer, very little is known, and that only inferentially. Pressure 100 miles up is calculated to be 1/300,000 of the pressure at sea level, practically a vacuum. Highly tenuous though that upper medium is, it is nonetheless dense enough to burn up meteors by its friction. Like the lower atmosphere it carries electrical charges. Proof of that is the great heights from which the curtains of Aurora Borealis, an electrical phenomenon, hang. If Professor Goddard, or anyone else, can learn the exact nature of that high zone it is conceivable that man will...
...earth's atmosphere layer. They have been able to stay there only a few moments, for the temperature is 75 degrees below Fahrenheit zero and the air-pressure is one-eighth of what man is built to endure. Nor could the thin air sustain the planes or sufficiently burn the fuel...