Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt I am adding fuel to the fire with this letter, but that is my opinion. What are you going to do about it (Ed.'s note: Why, publish it, of course.) Thomas Sawes Hlake...
...especially timely. This season, to a greater extent than ever before, there has been heaped upon certain angles of intercollegiate football criticism and condemnation. The very important place that it has assumed caused much adverse comment, and the article of George Owen '23, which called football drudgery added fuel to the fire. The recent growth in the prestige of professional football, aided and abetted by the decision of Grange, Illinois quarterback; to turn professional adds another interesting angle to the question...
Continually on the move, keeping safely away from government boats, and luring them into long pursuits that exhaust their fuel, the runners from shore are trying to reach the beleaguered fleet in time to land their cargoes for the Christmas holidays...
...coal on hand. Foolish public men have created for the American people a fool's paradise, and they are due for a fool's awakening. If the mines were to start tomorrow it is extremely unlikely, from present prospects, that production and distribution would catch up with fuel requirements before the coming of next spring...
...Dust Fuel. The U. S. Department of Agriculture had a miniature device resembling a one-cylinder combustion engine. Into the cylinder was put a mixture of various kinds of carbonaceous dust-grain, sugar, cocoa, wood, even ground spices and cornstarch. When mixed with air and an electric spark administered, the dust exploded. Perhaps it was a new clue to the solution of the fuel problem. Chemist W. A. Noel of the Department had hit upon it when the carriage of his model grain elevator was blown to the top of its shaft like a motor piston and wrecked...