Word: flare-up
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...fortnight ago a secret service agent caused a flare-up in the Philippines. He was accused of graft, acquitted and reinstated after his trial by Governor General Leonard" Wood. Thereupon the Cabinet - or more properly the " Council of State" - resigned (TIME, July...
...Another flare-up of small-town spite against Guy?and then, at last, the change. A great automobile road was to pass through the state. Junction City wanted to be on. Who to send to St. Louis as the city's representative to convince the commissioners of Junction City's importance? Guy was the only able orator in town?he had "a bad record"?yes, but they had to have him. So they gave him a presentation traveling-bag and sent him off? the speech Bee had helped him write in his inside pocket?the deservedly prominent citizen...
...extraordinary flare-up in the brightness of the star Beta Ceti (TIME, March 10) reported by Camille Flammarion, has been discounted by the astronomers of Mount Wilson Observatory. There has been no change in the spectrum of the star, and it is believed that the Paris astronomer may have confused it with its near neighbor, Mira Ceti, which is a true variable star and is now at its brightest...