Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Many professors saw their works and collections consumed in the fire; more than twenty of them have had their houses burned and witnessed the destruction of their books, their letters, and their notes. All the important presses and book-shops of Louvain have been burnt; likewise, all the collections of reviews published at Louvain by our professors. Among these scientific losses I shall mention one especially deplorable. Professor Van Gehuchten had published, twenty years ago, a work on the anatomy of the nervous system, which had won for him a world-wide reputation. In June, 1914, he had finished...
...huge pot of melted fat took fire on one of the ranges; and immediately the kitchens were filled with hot smoke, which soon rushed through the ventilating fine and heated it to a dangerous degree. The city fire department quickly extinguished the flames before the fire had burnt through the floor of the dining room; but the escape of the building from destruction was so narrow, that the Corporation later caused a fire-proof floor to be substituted in the Hall for the preceding hollow structure of wood...
...instrument of democracy and efficiency, it (the Harvard Union) has been a dreary waste of time, of money, and of enthusiasm?" True, it has not developed into a working model of an ideal democracy, but we hate to call it a "dreary waste," unless the time, money, and enthusiasm burnt at class meetings, mass meetings, and excellent lectures are considered to be thereby squandered...