Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable chiefly for its running time (one hour and 43 minutes), a non-stop foot race between Henry Fonda and three pursuing Indians apparently down the entire length of Mohawk Valley, and the dogged persistence with which early American settlers plant wheat every spring for the Indians to burn every autumn. Since one burning wheat field looks much like another burning wheat field, this seasonal firing gets monotonous as the years roll...
...cent dearth in the East. New England college students never get any closer to drum majorettes than leering at their pictures in "Click." Here is a chance once and for all for Harvard to establish her intellectual supremacy. She can start a movement among the Ivy Colleges which will burn up the league. It might be objected that all-male educational institutions are in a slightly different position from the coed plants of the West, but what about the American Legion...
...crew of 940 were trained in lifeboat drill daily and hardly slept. Drums of gasoline stood on deck in order to burn the Bremen at any moment. Lifeboats were kept swung over the side, and intake valves on the hull were ready to be opened...
...with its 96,612 miles of pipe lines running from Oklahoma to New Jersey and crisscrossing the continent like veins under its skin, with the fields of East or West Texas or central Louisiana calling for supply houses at Fort Worth, Tulsa, Corpus Christi, with the thousands of flares burning the escaping gas, hissing as they burn, lighting up the derricks and stretching out under the wind like yellowish acetylene pennants of flame...
...report that made Berlin burn was based on the H. R. Knickerbocker (Hearst) report that the German high command had salted huge fortunes away in foreign lands against the day of defeat (TIME, Oct. 2). The announcer called Knickerbocker direct ("Do you hear us, Mr. Knickerbocker?"), offered him, on behalf of Goebbels, a tenth of all the cached wealth he could locate. When he failed to reply in 36 hours, a sizzling Berlin announcer blurted: "The British Ministry of Lies has bought the well-known American journalist, Knickerbocker . . . the louse...