Word: stark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked, their clothes burned away, their skin and flesh in sizzling tatters...
...stark purpose of the Mellon Institute has been, since its origin in 1911, the hiring out of skilled chemists, physicists and engineers to industrialists who want to learn how 1) to cheapen their manufacturing costs, 2) to improve the attractiveness of their goods in quality, appearance or price, 3) to utilize waste products, 4) to invent new things...
...telegram from a "Crimson" editor yesterday that seemed to speak volumes by its stark simplicity. Here...
...Stark and silent stood the forest of derricks whose clanking activity built New London and London only a few years ago. Eleven of them stood on the school's grounds. The royalties they brought furnished most of the $1,000,000 which transformed New London's old wooden schoolhouse into one of the finest rural educational plants in the U. S. Still intact were the model home economics kitchens, playgrounds, sewing rooms, laboratories, built by the black crude oil that bubbles richly under the East Texas soil. Natural gas heated the individual classroom radiators in the Consolidated School...
...first installment of "This Is My Story," Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt's autobiography. These memoirs were billed as the first ever -written by a First Lady while resident in the White House. The Journal editors promised that Mrs. Roosevelt's writings would be "unusually frank." The stark honesty of the first installment, released at the announcement party, made plain that this was one editorial boast which was likely to be fulfilled. Extracts...