Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spark from this fire ignited some excelsior which had been left carelessly under a box car on a siding less than 100 feet from the watchmen's shanty. The freight car was loaded with small shells which exploded and set fire to other cars. Finally a car loaded with black powder in the very centre of the yard exploded and after that everything went...
...publication of unusual virility your article reporting the American Legion Convention was startlingly sterile (TIME, Oct. 20). Either none of your staff actually saw the orgy or they are all legionaries. Does it strike no spark from your terse sense of humor that tin-capped, be-goggled, middle-aged ''playboys of the western world" swarmed deliriously toward Boston to formally record in a solemn moment that they regretted the actions of local hoodlums? Coming here with one vibrant purpose, they fulfilled that purpose gloriously, overwhelmingly, only to then graciously hand all credit for the stunning victory...
...Oklahoma City, capital of the State, the sun rose last week through a yellow murk and set surrounded by weird rainbows. A roaring, shrieking sound filled the heavy air. Fifty city blocks were declared under martial law to prevent a match or spark being struck there. The schools closed. Cause of all this was an oil well just beyond the southeastern city boundary, known as the C. E. Stout No. i. It blew in last week and in eight minutes, seeming well under control, produced 350 bbl. of oil. Then sand came with the driving liquid, cut through the valves...
...Battle Creek, Mich., Duane Thornton sprinkled gasoline on his overstuffed furniture to kill moths, rushed to the window to escape the fumes, tripped over an electric light cord. A spark from the dislodged socket set fire to the gasoline-soaked furniture, burned up $3,000 worth of furnishings...
...three most important essentials for a man who wants to become a great swimmer are the ability to relax in the water, coordination, and an indefinable winning spark," declared H. S. Ulen head coach of swimming, in an interview yesterday afternoon at the pool of the New Indoor Athletic Building. Ulen came to Harvard after having reached at Syracuse where he taught Cameron, 440-yard intercollegiate backstroke champion and Wohl, 150-yard backstroke record holder. While under Ulen's tutelage. Syracuse twice captured second place in the intercollegiate swimming league comprised of 19 colleges including Dartmouth. Princeton, and Yale...