Word: flare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the cold water at Catalina Island, one day last week and turned their numerous, goggled, and determined faces toward the unseen California mainland, 2 miles away. Day faded. Light came out on the shore. Now an then on the bow of a tug a trainer lit a red flare to show that his swimmer was out of the race. Slowly, doggedly, the rest splashed...
Such reasoning caused a flare of protest in Mexico, in South America, in Europe. Last week alarm was sounded in Washington. President Coolidge's Official Spokesman said that he was deeply concerned. He called for Secretaries Kellogg and Wilbur; they conferred for two hours. Nothing was announced. Rear Admiral Latimer remained on duty in Nicaragua. Senators and outsiders kept the question heated...
...produce with almost unfailing regularity a handsome and convincing tale of the high adventure. On the other hand, remembering that he spent considerable time in South Africa after taking his degree, and travelled over Europe as a special corespondent and possesses an abiding love for the Scotch moors, his flare for the romantic is not so astonishing...
...students at the University of California watched with amazement the antics of a gas flame in a glass tube on Dr. E. E. Hall's lecture desk. Near the tube was a radio transmitter. No one tampered with the gas supply, yet the gas flame was made to flare up, turn from yellow to blue and roar. Dr. Hall explained that seven miles away, in the General Electric Co.'s laboratory, Charles Kellogg, famed "bird man," was broadcasting notes from the phenomenal upper register of his voice. The vibrations, 15,000 to 20,000 per second, transmitted...
Canton, seat of Stark County, Ohio, had quieted down for the night. The late President McKinley and his wife slept the long sleep in their granite mausoleum on Monument Hill, with the distant flare of an all-night blast furnace occasionally spreading a ruddy glow over the bronze statue of McKinley, standing tall and pensive above the coffins. Every night the bronze McKinley stands there brooding over Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses...