Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero of the day was Stanley O. Beren '41, who braved flame and smoke to reach an elderly lady who had fallen on the stairs in an effort to escape from the inferno and was nearly overcome by the fumes, and carried her to the comparative safety of the waiting fire trucks...
...coffee pot had boiled over on the new stove, extinguished the flame. Little Bruno lay on the floor, Amelia on the bed. The emergency crew worked on the two for a fruitless hour before they finally gave up. Angelo's three years had become a life sentence...
...with the fields of East or West Texas or central Louisiana calling for supply houses at Fort Worth, Tulsa, Corpus Christi, with the thousands of flares burning the escaping gas, hissing as they burn, lighting up the derricks and stretching out under the wind like yellowish acetylene pennants of flame...
...Millay has published 14 books of verse that have in one way or another kept her title intact. Though she has shown an increasing disillusionment with the world, the world has refused to be disillusioned with her. She can say that life, which she once felt was a flame, is really a frost, and be thanked for the pains of saying...
...Roosevelt's first steps would have to be taken along secret diplomatic channels. He would have to ascertain in advance that there is some common ground for a settlement. Should either side by any chance or for any reason refuse his offer, hatreds in Europe and America would flame only the more hotly...