Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...queer feeling we had when Virginia and I saw a Japanese plane burst in the air and disappear in a huge cloud of black smoke which in dissolving showed us tiny silver like pieces of the fuselage as they fluttered to earth...
...courageous action the burst gas main was stopped up and the gas company workers completed what the foreman termed "just another...
...meet the following three days of its first week, despite the fact that, with no farm, tax, wage & hour, reorganization or regional planning bill to consider, there was no work for its members to do. Consequence of this move on the part of Representative Church had been a burst of publicity far exceeding any he had ever received before in his four years in the House...
...grand evening!" commented King George after the last turn, a Scottish shepherd who sang A Hundred Pipers an' A', after which 100 pipers from Scottish regiments marched in piping their loudest, burst into God Save the King before a backdrop of Edinburgh Castle. Cried Scottish Queen Elizabeth "Thank you for a wonderful surprise...
...taken for granted that man-eating sharks can thus lightly be ignored in favor of lesser finny denizens, or molluscs and foraminifera. The Museum has evidently seen the light, but not enough of it. Man-eaters are inclined to sneer at trawls and nets. Furthermore, they are likely to burst out in new viciousness at being over-long neglected. Various persons will then have to pay tribute with their arms and legs for shark spite...