Word: lit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts calling for natural gas exports of 18 million cubic feet daily through their new pipe. No niggards, they made expensive gas whoopee in Monterrey one night last week, lit a mighty "Inaugural Beacon" which spurted up house high from the Public Square...
...happiest. Returning to Paris in the last days of fat Napoleon Ill's tottering empire, the Young Tiger was just in time to gnash impotent jaws as Bismarck's Prussians conquered with "blood and iron" at Sedan, then tramped on to Paris. The pomp, the swagger, the burning shame lit a blaze of hate in Clemenceau which nothing ever quenched. Bismarck, Wilhelm II, Stresemann?they were all anathema. "Stresemann was Bismarck's best pupil," growled the Tiger recently. "He has gotten everything for his country, while on our side everything has been abandoned. This will surely bring the next...
...rekindle the Flame nine torches were ready. They had been lit the day before in the farthest villages of Belgium's nine provinces. War veterans had carried them in "Sacred Relays" to Brussels-no great distance since the remotest edge of the kingdom is only 114 miles away. While the last nine relay runners panted and held their flaming torches high, King Albert laid a huge wreath of purifying chrysanthemums around the polluted orifice. Then with a loud S-s-s-s-s the gas was turned full on. Simultaneously the runners thrust their torches into...
...Scottish camp Edward of Wales lit his pipe, threw the match on the ground. Canny, a young Scot picked it up, auctioned it off for five shillings...
Because most Irish homes and nearly all Irish huts are now lit by candles and primitive flame lamps, the Shannon River Power Plant is only one phase of a bold, nationwide electrification program now being carried through by the mighty Berlin firm of Siemens-Schuckert...