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...mattress continued to smoulder inside despite several attempts to douse the fire with water, and the fire extinguishers on the first and second floors refused to work for the students. "Then I ran up to the third floor and found the nozzle of the fire extinguisher there covered with masking tape," Baird said...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Extinguishers Fail to Operate In Pennypacker Mattress Fire | 11/7/1978 | See Source »

...novels. But Stalinist poetry (like Nezval in Czechoslovakia or Kundera himself in his youth) left us beautiful verse because through the magic of poetry, all statements become the truth, provided they are backed by the power of real experience. And the poet certainly experiences deeply, so deeply their emotions smoulder and blaze. The smoke of their firely feelings spread like a rainbow over the sky, a beautiful rainbow spanning prison walls...

Author: By Jacques D. Rupnik, | Title: The Politics of Culture in Czechoslovakia | 5/20/1975 | See Source »

...Clean-up work begins on the east side of the building, as the suites overlooking the courtyard still smoulder Quincy men, some out of necessity, and others for convenience, drink their orange juice in the dining hall in their pajamas

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Rages in Four Quincy Suites; Cause of $35,000 Blaze is Unknown | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

...Dartmouth game rekindled a question which has been left to smoulder to long by sports authorities. The question: are penalties over-emphasized in athletic contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Objections Given on Penalties Tickets, West Point Events | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...existing things, halfhearted, diplomatic. And since, as more and more of us are beginning to realize now, there can be no more peace or safety on earth without a profound reconstruction of the methods of human living, the Great War did not so much come to an end as smoulder through two decades, the fatuous twenties and the frightened thirties, to flare up again now. Now at a level of greater tension, increased violence and destructiveness and more universal suffering, we are back to something very like 1914, and the decisive question before our species is whether this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planless Peace | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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