Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winds sprang up along the tindery countryside, every chimney spark, every pile of smoldering leaves, every discarded cigarette seemed to explode into a forest fire. The New England coast was masked by towering plumes of yellow-white smoke. So were great areas of New York and New Jersey...
...people hardly ventured away from the warm lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia; their technique of life could not cope with even a mild winter. The Greeks and Romans knew more about battling winter, and benefited from the mental stimulus of the north Mediterranean climate. After the invention of the chimney and other body warmers, civilization throve best in North Europe and America, where the cold, changeable climate kept minds alert. The next great extension of civilization, speculated Huntington, may be into Russia: the technique of keeping warm has just about caught up with Russia's extra-stimulating cold...
...arguments each way. This sort of thing begins to be terribly tedious toward the middle of the second act, and the curious things that start to happen when Massey is left alone on the stage help things only slightly. A little man, dressed as Massey, climbs out of a chimney (the set is a roof) and starts to berate his master, presumably the body and emotions of the scientist, for just about everything that he has said and done in the previous scene. All this falls somewhere short of delightful...
...hospital-to-hero episode began about seven years ago when Norris, never much of an athlete, plummeted from a 30-foot chimney scaffold on to a brick carrier's hod, injuring his left heel. Repeated attempts to heal it disclosed a dislocated...
...they did not mark an airport. One of them was the pilot flame in a squat, chimney-like waste-gas furnace, set in a field of oil and gas storage tanks owned by the Colonial Beacon Oil Co. As the plane glided in, it narrowly missed the great, fog-shrouded tanks. A little way beyond, it hit the soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks...