Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instantly a 40-foot flag of gasoline flames shook itself up from the gully, furbelowed with black. Captain Fonck and Lieutenant Curtin were found struggling to their feet, 20 yards from the inferno they had escaped before it burst. The flames had their way for hours. Then, certain cinders, a Koran, a crucifix, indicated where Charles Clavier and Jacob Islamoff had burned behind jammed doors. There was no angry inquiry as to why the "dolly" had not been finally tested. Pilot Fonck, Lieutenant Curtin, Designer Sikorsky and his aids, were all exonerated by the coroner of criminal negligence. Some "fanatics...
From the ranked tribes there burst an answering roar. The metal snarl of that huge voice sent shivers into their hearts. Yet it was not any god, but only Joseph Griffo, the announcer, his voice trumpeted from the loud speaker whose horns overhung the ring. Tunney, who still had a bathrobe on, smiled slightly and bowed his head. Across from him sat a scowling, unshaven man with a towel over his shoulder. And around them rose the crowd...
...truth is then apparent. No man holds better reasons in his mind for becoming president of Harvard University than does Summerfield Baldwin--but are those the reasons which can satisfy Harvard? All flippancy aside, and one can best combat the flippancy of a burst of bromides such as these excerpts from the sensational meanderings of a mind with a grudge against the History Department with words of a kindred lack of seriousness, the Presidency of Harvard University is a position based on positive values. The list of Menchenisms of Mr. Baldwin are negative values. Those who could be content with...
...Vanzetti case with the 1920 anti-Red drive of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, produced ex-Government agents who swore that conviction for murder was simply "one way of disposing of them," that there were files of evidence which the Department of Justice refused to reveal. Lawyer Thompson burst ihto flames...
TIME'S many items of challenging interest must be making the urge to burst into print infectious. It would seem few of your readers escape. As a constant reader and original subscriber to your admirable magazine, I just read your article in the MISCELLANY column of TIME, Aug. 16, captioned, "Name-in-a-Million." It leads me to submit the following...