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...much the particular facts, as the tendencies which led to the late war that will be the subject of Professor Fay's investigation. Economic unrest, the spirit of militarism--these are the intangible explosives which burst into the flame of war when once the spark is applied. It is usually the subconscious attitude of a nation that causes its conscious actions. If it is possible to determine the factors causing that subconscious attitude, then the fundamentals of international relations can be understood...
...running a spool of film through a polishing machine. Something went wrong with the machine. A spark flew from a whirling gear and set the film on fire. A few seconds later every film in the room was on fire. Burning gas exploded and blew out the door, the flame rushed into other rooms. People staggered out of blazing doorways. Some were taken away in ambulances. One man died of his burns. All day the building-a laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries-burned like a pine torch while a crowd watched and fire-engines drenched the studios on each side...
...their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam on the blaze, snuffed it out. Grim and taciturn, the Kinley boys glanced up as the explosion took place, then plodded away without looking back...
Intensity of light in Kansas City, Kan., dance halls must be one candle-foot (one candle's light a foot from the flame) at a plane three feet above the floor...
...shooting star; a mass of matter from celestial space striking the earth's atmosphere and bursting into flame...