Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mary it seems that the rusticity outweighs the refinement. Still, she loves him, agrees to marry him. But as they plan for a new sink at Doomsday and a pump to supply water for Mary's dishwashing, she loses heart. In despair she takes a dawn train away from Cinder Town, going to Weyfleet to her sister Clare...
...obvious conclusion arrives. Poorer, wiser and more awake to the dignity of washing dishes, Mary returns to Cinder Town. Once more the kinetic nobility of Furze charges her heart with true love. He takes her to be his housekeeper. If she succeeds at her tasks, he will marry her. She succeeds...
Last week a cinema actor* crouched on a cinder track at Pomona, Calif. He had been called the world's fastest human. A former Olympic star, he had burnt out, they said. Burnt or no, he would try again. Revolver barked; the cinemaman, sprang, antique legs hurled him onward. Paced by college lads he ran. Presently, head back, teeth set, he leaped through a tape. Timers announced that Charles Paddock (30-odd) had brought the world's record for 250 metres from 31.2 seconds down to 27.6. Southern Californians were pleased. "It's the air," they explained...
...jaunt to the shores of England is in prospect for the members of the University track team, it was declared by officials of the H. A. A. yesterday. A cablegram has been received from Oxford University giving final plans for the biennial invasion conducted by the Yale and Harvard cinder stars to compete against an Oxford-Cambridge team...
Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...