Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thundering out of the night, the plane brushed a rhubarb patch, caromed off a tree and a shed, crashed through the wall of Joseph Arisa's frame house. It burst like a flaming meteor into the Arisas' parlor. A moment before, the Arisas, their four children, their roomer, his brother and two guests had been playing cards. Joseph Arisa, his clothing ablaze, leaped through a window. The others scarcely had time to shriek before they were incinerated. With them died the plane's three occupants. (Joseph Arisa soon died in a hospital...
...days later a huge trimotored liner of Britain's Imperial Airwrays, flying from Cologne to London, burst into flames, plummeted to earth near Essen, Germany. All twelve passengers and the crew of three were burned crisp...
Some entertain the opinion that House tradition should grow, like a fungus, unseen till it burst forth in all its prime and splendor. But whether this is true, or whether some other line of attack is better, it seems certain that the end cannot be attained by Bulletins and the like. They are an approach far too obvious for the modern taste; they consume valuable time, and are close to uselessness...
...Nazi Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Minister of Interior for Prussia (i. e. of police), apologized to Germany's George Washington's still trembling widow. Safe outside Germany where he says he will stay "because of Hitlerism," Professor Albert Einstein read last week that his home had been burst into and ransacked by Nazis who said they were "looking for arms," found none...
...Herty had a speaking appointment at Niagara Falls before a section of the American Chemical Society. There he sped to exclaim: "Perhaps the most sensational fact about this new product is its strength and light weight. It has a burst strength of 10 to 12 lb. per sq. in., compared with only 6 to 10 lb. for the standard newsprint. It is a 30-lb. paper, while the standard is 32. This means that newspapers, if able to buy it, would receive 6.66% more sheets per ton and their mailing costs by weight would be 6.66% less...