Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week a vast stretch of the South was the scene of humanity hit bottom. No statistics could picture the pallid acres from Georgia to Arkansas, pocked with the burnt stumps of slash pine, gully-gutted, unfertilized; where the whitewash peeled from treeless shacks; where hatchet-faced tenants were not even able to get the three M's-Meal, Molasses and Meat-a diet that nourishes pellagra...
...Sydney is not so much a novel as an interrelated series of portraits; the portraits are not so much human likenesses as translations into brilliant descriptive talk of different types of human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic proportions: Michael, the burnt-out veteran of 32; Baruch, the philosopher of the one-horse printshop; Catherine, the virgin in search of an angel; Chamberlain, the cheerfully hopeless incompetent businessman; Tom Withers, the intelligently rat-minded foreman. Only ordinary character in the book is Joseph, whose very ordinariness lights up the grotesque genius...
...bowel it shrivels the severed ends, leaving them looking like the puckered ends of sausages. Thus no infectious intestinal material can leak into the peritoneum. After Dr. Whitaker removes the diseased segment of the bowel, he brings the healthy ends together and darns them in such manner that the burnt tissue lies within the passageway of the bowel. In 24 hours the burnt tissue sloughs off and passes away. The bowel no longer is obstructed, and in three weeks the patient is as well as ever...
...fast tanks and drop them over enemy lines without landing. Planes will fire small cannon from the air, and whole armies will be moved in huge transports. Giant lenses will be taken to great altitudes and focused on the sun's rays so that cities will be burnt...
Stopping here on way to Cambridge for football forecasts, my son, I. Fling, and I find series business afoot. It seems now that the Tigers have burnt their Bridges behind them and will have to Rowe home. It was a Greenberg up here today when that game the Cardinals was Owen the Tigers was finished. There a Foxy team from Missouri and a Frisch group all right. I say, how can Tigers win when Cards are stacked against them. This fella Dean, he real clever, but not too clever for Sage of the Age, who decrees...