Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hail! doughty men of Dunster, men of the blood-capped tower of Dunster, have thy flood-lamps burnt out? Replace them! Replace them! Let not thy mind be dimmed by any weak blue haze. And ye able men of Adams, men with hearts of gold, rise above the ethereal blue and shine! Even though ye be a House divided, ye cannot fall. Turn on the lights. Assert thyselves! Ho! eager men of Eliot, ye Green Knights of metrical romance, where is thy chivalry, thy honor? Gawain is thy peer, no blue haired fairy of Pinochio. Light up! Light...
...life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly, but I must tell it-I took the ring from my finger, for it burnt my flesh with its impossible summons and its intolerable reproach." Three weeks later he wrote that he thought he would soon be able to get it back...
...would burn down the finest seat of learning in the Anglo-Saxon world. It is just like saying I would burn down Goethe's or Schiller's house. ... I did not roar at Thompson, I did ask him, 'What would they say if those Communists burnt down their Oxford...
...burnt effigy of Mr. Apted in yesterday's Crimson criticized his handling of the Dunster House janitor case. Had Mr. Apted placed the case in the hands of the Cambridge Police immediately, the students implicated and perhaps others would have spent several days in jail, and met with a great deal more inconvenience than they actually...
...Bridgeport, Conn., Substitute Letter Carrier Suss S. Scalo was held in U. S. District Court on the charge that when he found he did not have time to deliver mail he burnt it to save red tape...