Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declining precipitously, and disaster was frankly anticipated by the trade. But meanwhile the consumption of crude oil and its byproducts, continued to increase. The huge production of automobiles demanded greater amounts of gasoline than ever. Large office buildings and hotels have adopted oil heating systems. Some railroads not only burn oil in their large locomotives, but are taking up running motor engines on their spur tracks for short haul traffic. Unless new oil fields are opened, the large stocks now overhanging market will be diminished, prices will rise, and a period of prosperity in oil industry will follow. Already this...
...most interesting features about this study is the emphasis put upon the fact that Jesus was extremely well read in Jewish law and mythology--that is, in the old testament. He believed the end of the world was at hand, and that all sinners would be sent to burn in eternal fire if unrepentant. Of course He was mistaken on the first point, and if He was right on the second point, only because it is true in a figurative sense (here we interject a layman opinion.) Jesus was a very real human being, and for that very reason...
Examples are legion. How many thousands of times has a comedian let a match burn until it singes his fingers? How many million people have laughed at his resulting agitation? In nearly every musical show ever produced one character or another, exit bound, will bump into the wings for comic effect. Hundreds of pairs of comedians have walked with increasing rapidity up and down the stage until one suddenly queries the other: "Who's winning...
Hundreds of candles burn in hundreds of stage windows while hundreds of stage mothers yearn for hundreds of wandering boys to return. Villians hiss: "You will suffer for this" all over the one-night stands. Heroines hold up burglars with pistols that aren't loaded. Working girls are leered at by wicked employers...
...anthracite boycott is significant only because it indicates desperation in New England (which constitutes a large part of the anthracite-using public). If New Englanders can give up their predilection for hard coal, their furnaces cannot. The expense and trouble of changing a large number of private furnaces to burn soft coal efficiently would materially injure the effectiveness of a boycott. As for the call of the Coal Commission to a new conference, it is popularly attributed to President Coolidge's desire for a settlement. Members of the Commission consulted with the President before acting, and he doubtless gave...