Word: flare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...that the sun spots we observe from time to time are similar, though trifling, eruptions within our sun. Since the stars that suddenly become twice as brilliant are supposed to be in about the same stage of development as our sun, the latter too might at any time flare up as the stars have done; and if it did, the intense heat would consume everything on earth as fiercely as an acetyline torch licks up a few blades of grass. This unpleasant assumption is based on mere conjecture. It is a known fact, however, that these variable stars eventually drop...
There is more good in the world than bad. There are more good men and women than bad. Where there are a few men in public office who are faithless and dishonest, there is a mighty army of high-minded sincere and devoted men who without flare of trumpets are resolutely doing the day's work. The immense number of young men and women who seek admission to our institutions of higher learning bear testimony to the love of their parents who desire to give their children opportunities which they did not enjoy. The countless gifts to colleges, to hospitals...
...very definite place in the political life of the country. As a whole we Americans can get stirred up over very small things, and we have apparently done so in this case. Luckily we possess the compensating ability of being able to cool down as quickly as flare up. It seems as if this ability might now prove useful...