Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anacostia River near Washington's Navy Yard, engineers tested fluorescent buoys to be used as markers for alighting seaplanes. Having no hot filaments to burn out, fluorescent lamps (coated inside with powders which shine by electrical agitation) are durable as well as efficient. The buoy lamps are carried on inflated floats shaped like doughnuts, which contain short-wave radio receivers so that the lamps can be turned on & off by remote control from shore...
While Kansas towns burn and North and South begin Civil War, Will Cantrill turns from school teaching to guerilla warfare to get to the top of the world in the quickest time possible. With a woman at the bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year...
...called Mardi Gras Frolic. This is a somewhat bolder type of entertainment. The clown, for example, who earlier in the evening cavorted on a lamppost, now cavorts on a huge statue of a nude. Muriel Page does a dance symbolizing the moth & the flame, in which her wings get burned and the rest of her clothes are hastily doffed to prevent the fire from spreading. But the spirit of burleycue reaches its climax with a "Wonder Woman" named Carrie Finnell, who has no wings to burn...
...sufficiently recovered and get my old soupbone warmed up," Bowie said, "I ought to be able to elbow my way through the first brace of cadenzas. "I've got speed to burn, but no control...
...speed to burn, but no control," Coulter announced. While the journalists have been holding regular and rigorous practice sessions for several weeks, the funnymen have only been batting it about at odd moments. It was the effect of their first serious workout yesterday that sent the jesters to the sick...