Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only 30% of the crews of torpedoed U.S. ships came out of their jousts with the subs alive. Scandinavian crews (80%) and British (60%) seemed to have better luck. Reason: Nazi subs operating off the East Coast are chiefly occupied in blasting tankers, which usually burn or explode when a torpedo bores into them...
...taking in and some giving out. He absorbs, memorizes, digests the lectures and reading material. This he is expected to remember for specific examinations. This he is spoon-fed. This, in the long run, is what he forgets. Who was Catherine of Sienna, and on what day did Hitler burn the Reichstag? The particulars are soon lost. What is "left over," what remains, is the ability to make accurate generalizations, to get to the heart of an issue and make comprehensive deductions from any given set of facts. To retain this is to approach what President Conant calls, "a study...
...mobs were allowed to loot German stores, manhandle German nationals. One mob piled the contents of a German-owned bookstore in the street, kindling them with the cry: "Hitler isn't the only one who can burn books." Where steel shutters halted the mob, it demanded the hoisting of the Brazilian flag. Police intervention was languid. When in the late afternoon a downpour scattered the crowds, nervous Brazilians quoted their old saw: "Deus é Brasileiro" (God is Brazilian). But next day, although further rioting in Rio was stopped, provincial mobs were permitted a similar anti-Axis field...
...fought again. British crews arrived with a few U.S. tanks-too few. U.S. pilots in China's American Volunteer Group had to abandon Rangoon, after taking a heavy toll of Japanese planes with the few bullet-battered fighters left to them. Correspondent Leland Stowe watched a bombed village burn, and wrote "When you looked again at the sagging skeletons of these wooden structures, somehow you thought immediately of Japan-Japanese buildings are made of the same tinderlike material as these Burmese dwellings. That seemed to be what the flames in Toungoo were saying...
...tons of coal in their bunkers, and 100,000 gallons of oil are on tap at the Medical School, the heating system of which was converted from coal some time ago. The burners, however, are equipped with special cones which may be used if necessary to burn powdered coal in much the same manner...