Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frozen remoteness eight bearded, twitching men tottered. Their leader, Col. C. D. H. McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed, explained that they were the Canadian exploring party who were lost with their two seaplanes two months ago in a snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from the Fort St. James. Even had they known, they could not have crossed the water. After long delay the winter freeze arrived. Then came Eskimos who guided them over...
Assistant Secretary Hope, 50, was born in Philadelphia. From Princeton he was graduated in 1901. During the War he served as a dollar-a-year-man in the U. S. Fuel Administration. His two chief interests: New York charities; Princeton University. For three years (1914-17) he was chairman of the Princeton Graduate Council. For another three years (1924-27) he was president of the Princeton Club of New York. He is a university life trustee member of its Administrative Committee, chairman of its Library Committee...
...gifted souls will find their way into the varsity line-ups, despite physical handicaps. Class football seems the best medium for athletic expression for the light weights, because it emphasizes what little attention we now pay to the ideal of "sport for sport's sake" and does not add fuel to the flames which burn at the altar of the God of football. The Yale News
...excursion-to Africa, through French Sudan, the High Volta, the Ivory Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, the Congo-disclosed a black slave traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes and junk are sold to Africans; 4) the Negro...
...wood-coal," is geologically half way between turflike peat and smudgy bituminous coal. It is hard, looks like dirty brown slate, burns without smoke, is clean to handle. Mined in the U. S. in North and South Dakota and Texas, it is useful in domestic furnaces, or as pulverized fuel in manufacturing plants...