Word: flame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smoke and flame bursting through the roof and windows of the second story of the Carey Cage threatened serious destruction to the Stadium at Soldiers's Field yesterday afternoon before the fire was brought under control...
...last week, after a year of being hauled across the nation's front pages, as hero, starry-eyed lover, and writer of torrid prose, Lieut. Colonel Boyington was not so happy. In a San Diego court, seeking to recover $8,000 from an old flame, Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson (TIME, Jan. 21), Pappy drummed his stubby fingers, listened to his letters offered into evidence: "Dearest Cuddle Bum. . . . Baby, what a bundle of love is coming to you. . . . Honey, will you still love me if I never get to be America's leading...
...been brief, but in the history of the 20th Century it might prove to be a historical milestone. Far more important than the crisis itself was the question it raised for all men to read in smoke and flame: can that part of the world in which human freedom takes precedence over the powers of government live at peace with police states...
Under Naziism, the soul of Germany all but died. Under the occupation, its failing spark has yet to be blown again into flame. Lest it go out altogether, the Rev. Geoffrey P. Druitt, British Assistant Chaplain General, last week delivered a message, almost a prayer, to the British forces in Germany...
...fire's heat ; by then the fire is usually blazing merrily. A Socony-Vacuum physicist named Paul B. Weisz thought he could do better. Last week, in Electronics magazine, he announced an ingenious ray-catching tube so sensitive that it can detect a match flame at 60 feet in broad daylight. The basic idea of Weisz's gadget is the detection of minute quantities of ultra violet radiation. In the earth's absorbent atmosphere most natural and electric light rays, except clear sunlight, contain almost no radiation in the far ultraviolet (below 3,000 angstroms...