Word: flare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against the flare he had just set off stood the aviator immobile as a statue, while the landscape, leaping out of shadow at the summons of his fantastic torch, assumed around him an aspect of exaggerated horror; water-rotted trees at the river's edge stretched their arms in stiff attitudes of torment, like ghouls petrified in the death-agony; the motionless grain at his feet seemed to have been cemented, by the mist and the strange light, into an acre of solid stone. As he peered under his hand, trying in vain to see beyond the circle his flare...
...flare guttered, went...
...Vadunt? Is the present sporadic outburst of nationalism going to sweep all China into a ferment against the foreigners? Or is it going to die down to flare up again in the future? It is unlikely, if not impossible, for the Chinese to undertake any concerted action against the foreigners. This is because the Chinese are themselves too much divided. But it is almost a certainty that nationalism as a force will live to show its talons another day and there can be no doubt that some time the nationalists will...
...first interest, my dear Usbek, was attracted to a group, or tribe, of Satellities which I was told contained the most advanced thinkers to be found in this Universe-city. These choice souls call themselves the Why-nots and hold their meetings in a barn amidst the red flare of torches. Thither I went with great hopes, and witnessed the most extraordinary manifestations of advanced thought. By special invitation, Jaipurdhi, the Indian fakir most noted for his piety and fifth, had come to address them upon the fundamental necessity of discarding all clothing for complete self-expression. With great enthusiasm...
...Landis Tsar of baseball-an Advisory Council was created consisting of the Presidents of the two leagues and Judge Landis was named Chairman of the Council and later Commissioner over the whole sport. Soon friction developed. The Grand Khan resented the overlordship of the Tsar. The latest of these flare-ups took place this fall. Just before the close of the National League season two members of the New York Giants were accused of offering a bribe to a member of the Philadelphia nine to "throw" a game which would have automatically given the Giants the pennant of their league...