Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain by this time, however, that their efforts would be of little avail, for the flames were already showing signs of subsiding through sheer lack of sustaining fuel. At 5.30 o'clock this morning, the smouldering embers and skeleton walls were a mute testimony to the tinderbox qualities and inadequacy of Soldier Field's superannuated and condemned athletic center...