Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night falls. Here & there in the distance Very lights go up, trucks still burn, flaming oil dumps set up a glow. The escarpment gradually goes silent...
...over the weekend Gene's fingers began to burn. Monday morning he announced that he would leave the floggers in prison...
Another rugged individualist has enlisted in the U.S. defense program-which needs more of them. Frank Pembroke ("Huck") Huckins is a blunt Boston Yankee with confidence to burn. Last year he told the Navy he could make a motor torpedo boat which wouldn't pound the teeth out of its crew. To most old salts, this sounded fantastic. But since Huckins was willing to spend his own money on the boat-if the Navy would just supply the engines-the Navy turned him loose...
Amidst the cheers of students and mingled ories of: "Let it burn," rubber-coated figures untangled hoses and disappeared into doorways jammed with emerging scholars...
Blown Up, Flown Up. Although powdered magnesium is explosive, solid magnesium is no more combustible than aluminum or iron, both of which also burn in foil or powder form. (To prove this point one metallurgist went about smoking a magnesium pipe.) But today less than 5% of U.S. magnesium goes into military pyrotechnics and scavenging; 95% goes into definitely nonflammable alloys of which about 80% goes into airplanes...