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...floating down in blazing strips and flakes, fell on the screaming mob of men, women and children for a quarter of a mile around. Those who had not been knocked senseless by the impact of the explosion, surged in terror to the river bank, plunged into the water to quench their burning hair and clothes. Mrs. Latone, aflame from head to foot, leaped into the river, sank and was drowned. Then came a second blast. The shower of burning celluloid thickened into a roll of flame, set nine buildings alight. Perilous live electric wires fell from their poles into...
...passage of the Congressional beer bill is an event which should not pass into the limbo of Government 1. That the nation may soon quench 3.2 per cent of its inordinate thirst, spurs the the interested observer to inquire whether the movement will spread to the House dining halls. Much water, not unmixed with nobler elements, has passed under the bridge since the University last dispensed larger with magnificent indifference. Whether she can recapture the first fine careless rapture of pre-Volsteadian days is, of course, another question...
After two days & nights authorities decided that the picnic had lasted long enough. Police spent two hours gently herding out the crowd. From the roof deputy sheriffs used a fire hose to quench the spirits of some 500 or 600 who tried to force their way back inside. ¶ Some 4,000 Nebraska farmers slept on the State Fair Grounds two miles out of Lincoln one night last week. Next morning they hitched up their overalls, raised their banners, marched shouting and singing to the Capitol. Half of them got into the legislative chamber, presented to a joint session...
...like Heywood Broun '10, John Dos Passes '16, Walter Lippmann '10, and Henry Dana '03, are evidence of the liberalism which Harvard fosters, or at least does not quench. When a man comes to Harvard with the instinct of radicalism already developed, he is almost certain to maintain it; when the other type comes, the man with an aristocratic. New England training and a preconceived conservatism, he is almost sure to come in contact with ideas and theories that will give him at least a tolerance of liberalism. He often becomes a liberal himself, and sometimes turns into...
...temporarily retreat. They were heartened by a 20% increase for the full year 1931. Last week they beamed when it was announced that traffic for the first quarter of 1932 was 31% up. Even the fact that Depression had nibbled away 4% of their air mail poundage failed to quench their delight...