Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Demolition. There was a raveled place in the silk insulation around an electric wire in the Church of Ste. Anne de Beaupré. On Mar. 29, 1922, the flame, thrusting through the wire, burned away the last strands of silk and began to crackle in a piece of dry wood. That wood was a crutch-stick, one of hundreds piled there together-some thick as fagots, the canes of maimed sailors; some the spindling, pathetic splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost...
Beyond this the college office cannot go, for the average undergraduate, both here and elsewhere, is an intellectual coward. Were it not for marks and cuts and classes, youth would flame unchecked and college men would live up to the novels written about them. The student's nose must be held to the grindstone, whether he likes it or not. He can scarcely hope for a freedom which he would only misuse...
...like Dorinda Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill, Dorinda wore a flame-colored shawl, bright symbol of protest. Her bee-stung mouth was another protest. Jason Graylock, rufous, crisp but unfound, came home from medical study to take care of his father. He thought he discovered his grip in Dorinda. For her, his charm, and love itself, were life's incredible...
...Hungarian proposal to exclude flammenwerfen (flame projectors) from the list of controllable weapons was carried. Hungary pointed out that these weapons were already barred by International Law. The U. S. immediately moved a resolution to control all component parts...
General Fries, who is an experienced engineer and the man who built up the Chemical Warfare Service from its beginning as the Gas and Flame Division of the engineers Corps, spoke on "Recent Developments in chemical Warfare." The speaker was introduced by Professor Edwin H. Hall, Rumford Professor of Physics, Emeritus, who reminded his audience that every man present might have to decide his course of conduct in reference to the next war, and would have to choose among pacifism, diplomatic peace, and military preparedness as means of preventing future conflicts...