Word: tinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considering how the situation might be remedied, he said that "If you insist on leaving tinder lying around you cannot tell who will strike the spark and set it off. It is our business to remove the tinder. This is the one question in which public opinion is important. We cannot sit by paralized and watch. There is a lack of government instrumentality; the Secretary of the Navy talks about armament, while Kellogg is ready to work internationally...
Catering to the mob or to the individual; which course shall the college curriculum pursue? John Hurd, Jr., of the English department, adds more dry tinder to the fire of the issue in an article in The Intercollegiate for November, in which he rudely destroys the cherished tradition of Oxford as an educational millenium...
While hot, hissing celluloid flames cut off the only door, the barn, tinder-dry, kindled with a roar. Forty-nine persons were burned to death in this, the worst cinema-theatre fire in the history of the British Isles...
...embers of a generation-old Spanish feud kindled again last week. Wicked darting flames of revolution spurted high at Barcelona, industrial tinder box of Catalonian unrest. Upon the city and all Spain Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera clapped his oldfashioned, iron extinguisher of smothering censorship. With all commercial telegraph and telephone lines completely silent throughout Spain, voluminous clouds of rumor billowed with the awesome menace of uncertain portent...
...steel may strike the flint many times before a spark ignites the tinder. Two hundred and fifty-one times in the past year, by actual count, the immigration section of the Department of Labor had denied admission to the U. S. to persons ineligible according to law -to persons who admitted having committed a crime or misdemeanor involving "moral turpitude."* On the 252nd time the tinder went up in lurid flames...