Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burnt River, Ont., a white dog was grazed by a bolt of lightning, had its fur scorched a dark brown...
...prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing in the burnt grass...
...investigate. Most of the subsequent exhibits are Kettering's reports, but there are also police files on the individuals involved, photographs of the scene of the crime and of the passengers on the yacht, letters found in staterooms, a small sample of a blood-stained chintz curtain, a burnt match and some hair...
...behind a board fence next to a garage on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution, there to see a solar engine which Secretary Charles G. Abbott, of the Institution, perfected to a point where it could produce power as cheaply as coal at $3 a ton. Unfortunately the engine "burnt out a bearing" an hour or two before the visitors arrived. President Gano Dunn of J. G. White Engineering Corp. pointed out to them that if the surface of the lake behind Boulder Dam were covered with such engines they would produce as much sun-power as the dam will...
...life, except to grease his hair and clean his buckles.' A descendant of a long line of ministers 'was spoilt by a residence in Virginia, where he became dissipated'; two others became drunkards without faring so far. One committed suicide shortly after graduation, two went insane, a fourth was 'burnt to death by foolish sport after election day playing with squibs,' and a fifth was murdered...