Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot Crystal Mountain near Fort Collins, Colo. The DC-6, some 40 miles off its course, had glided into the mountain side at the 8,600-foot level, furrowed a 50-foot-wide path through the pines, skipped a ravine and disintegrated in a burst of flame half a mile beyond. A rescue party labored up the mountain to the scene of the crash, radioed back a too-familiar message: "No sign of life...
Early one May morning, a roaring pillar of flame hurtled up over Eniwetok Atoll. In brief and terrible seconds the fireball blossomed into the mushrooming cloud that hovers like some sinister symbol over atomic explosions. Afterwards, as soon as things were reasonably safe, scientists, construction crews and military technicians from Joint Task Force Three swarmed ashore at the "target" island. They measured what was left to measure, studied the effects of the blast that had been seen as far as Kwajalein, 375 miles away, made ready to conduct still more tests. Then, after two years of work and two months...
Just such is the danger which menaces the American college, hidden in the warmth, the flame, the color and the laughter of its Class Day and Commencement celebrations. It is an offering by each individual to his own loyalty, to a totem, a kindred in this case with legions and generations of Harvard men. But such a sacrifice must not come unaccompanied by clear understanding and appreciation. The mass form assumed by the celebration tends constantly to render this appreciation more difficult and it is only the strict avoidance of set formulae and taboos which may keep it from becoming...
Long-smoldering U.S. medical skepticism over the use of BCG* as a vaccine against tuberculosis burst into flame last week at a medical convention in Chicago. Declared Professor Jay Arthur Myers, TB authority at the University of Minnesota: not only are the claims of good results from BCG unfounded, but the whole idea of a vaccine against tuberculosis is based on a fallacy...
...Norwalk, Conn., founded in 1939 by Richard S. Perkin, a bored Wall Street man whose hobby was amateur astronomy. Teaming up with another amateur astronomer, Charles W. Elmer, he was soon turning out such optical oddities as prisms of poisonous thallium iodide (for infrared work), as well as flame photometers and infra-red spectrometers...