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...Island. Many of the staff, following Christchurch custom, were at afternoon tea or were just ambling back to their counters. They smelled fire and saw wisps of smoke but, told that firemen were arriving, carried on with their jobs. Then, in a twinkling, the acre-wide building was a pillar of flame. Fire broke from the shallow basement, seared the main floor, exploded upward to the second and third...
Before they could intervene he slid down a projecting pillar to the ground, but seemed to be unjust...
...great open season on the H.A.A.," it is good to report that the problem of equitably allotting gridiron vantage points on concrete steps is being solved with considerable efficiency and very little shooting. No longer need the upperclassmen trudge, with quiet desperation, to the same seat behind the same pillar for all six games. No more shall the guest from far distant places arrive to find no ticket, a much chagrined host, and a dreary afternoon in some saloon...
...movement of toiling mankind from capitalist slavery. . . . Agents of imperialism are trying, in this way and that, to provoke a new war. [But] it is known that peace-loving peoples are looking to Moscow with hope as the capital of a great peace-loving power and as a mighty pillar of peace...
...routine training flight. On a sunny morning this week, the sleek T.W.A. Constellation, Star of Athens, swung low over the Brandy wine light, skimmed north up Delaware Bay. The lighthouse-keeper heard a jarring explosion, then two more. An enormous pillar of smoke shot up from the pool of gasoline flames on the water. By the time fishing boats and the Coast Guard reached the scene, all that was left of the Constellation and its four-man crew were some floating wreckage, a few bits of burned flesh and charred clothing...