Word: seared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lash out savagely at his enemies they might treat him with a pitying consideration which he could not endure. As Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1924 Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, he won a sort of right to criticize the budgets of succeeding Chancellors, to sear and slash. He exercised that right last week most rashly when he rose to flay Chancellor Winston Churchill's fifth and present Budget (TIME, April 22). The Chancellor (Conservative) had abolished the tax on tea which Englishmen have paid grumblingly since the middle of the 17th century, which American...
...347° Fahrenheit?more than hot enough to sear human flesh, to cook a potato, to convert water into steam (212° F.); but only half hot enough to melt lead...
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Locked in the vaults of the Bank of Spain, at Madrid, some 97 aged documents have been moldering into sear yellow crinkles. Not long ago a South American republic was reported to have offered three million pesetas ($420,000) for them. Their owner, the Duke of Veragua, direct descendant of Christopher Columbus, politely declined...
...present the only Tongs fighting, are the Hip Sings, the On Leongs. Many others exist;?the Hong Tuck Tong, made up of cigar makers; the Gum Longs, of fishermen on the Sacremento river; the Gin Sin Sear, founded by Little Pete, famed Chinese badman; the Bo Sin Sear, its rival; the Suey Sings, the Juke Lums, Om Yicks, Bing Kongs. The war of 1905 brought in twelve tongs on one side, nine on the other. Remembering this, police commissioners in all cities stationed double patrols, last week, in their Chinatowns...