Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on, "that your prohibition laws are evil, and yet they seem to stay right with you through all the smoke and pseudo-virulent flame of attack. We have something in common with you with our laws about liquor; Iceland and the United States are the only two countries in the world that have prohibition, and the majority of our people are opposed to it, just as yours are. Despite the apparent helplessness of America and the foolishness of self-imposition of thousands of useless and liberty-destroying laws, I do not at all feel that it is a decadent...
...Great days. The Vagabond often wishes that he could have shared in the tension and dynamic optimism which swept Europe like a flame in those two glorious years of revolution. The world made heroic gestures which were to crumple at the touch of steel, but the story of Rome and of Vienna, of Budapest, and Paris, was written too well to be obliterated under the returning tide of military autocracy. A Hapsburg was still on the throne of his conglomerate empire, a Bourbon swaggered in Naples, and a saddened Pope told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism...
...Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, Sweden's No. 2 tycoon, great maker of vacuum cleaners and automatic iceboxes. He was standing beside the new refrigerator he had begun to manufacture. Mr. Sloan noted that it had no moving parts, made no noise, worked by means of a little gas flame applied to a solution of water and ammonia...
...vaporization point of graphite-Engineer Chesnut could drop objects through the tube, watch what happened in the hellish interior. Wood was instantly reduced to vapor, burning as a sudden jet of gas. Rocks quickly became vaporized, silicon and magnesium gases shot out into the air burning with a white flame. The furnace was kept at 3,000° for more than five hours. Iron was put in. It turned to gas, formed a carbide, remained as such while the temperature was raised toward the 3,600° vaporization point of graphite. At this point a blue & white flame shot...
...decisions on vexed questions, such as the validity of treaties, or the rights of foreign residents or investors in territory inadequately policed by native authority. If the League can extend its jurisdiction to these sore spots soon enough, if judicial arbitration can be used before smoldering discontent bursts into flame, the League's power to prevent war may become completely effective...