Word: tinder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Specially constructed on the ship were eight staterooms made of wood, metal and asbestos panels submitted as fireproof by various manufacturers. In each stateroom were piled 750 Ib. of tinder-dry oak logs and scrap kindling, representing the combustible material in an average stateroom. Located inside and outside each room were electric thermocouples connected with dials in a recording room. In each stateroom the experts started a fire, let it roar. In each case the inside heat reached 1,700°. This made the half-inch steel plates of the Nantasket turn red-hot and buckle. Glass doors cracked...
...Manhattan financial weekly addressed the Advertising Clubs of Texas on "What Texas Has To Advertise and How To Advertise It." History and heroism were Texas' greatest assets, he said. Let Texas celebrate her glorious escape from the yoke of Mexico. The idea spread like fire in the tinder of Texas' best advertising minds. . Governor Pat Neff issued a proclamation calling a Centennial meeting. Some 2,000 Texans came, a Centennial Board was set up. That advertising idea had played into unusual good luck. The original head of the Centennial Board, Cato Sells (Woodrow Wilson's Indian Commissioner...
...Uruguay the Soviet Legation has been distinctly overworked by the eagerness of Moscow to promote the World Revolution of the World Proletariat in all South American countries. Prime tinder for Communist firebrands are South America's traditionally disgruntled Indians, Negroes and half-breeds, but to try to funnel enough World Revolution for the whole continent through Uruguay was injudicious. Last week President Terra of Uruguay, after prolonged investigation, decided that altogether too many large checks drawn "to bearer" by the Soviet Legation in Montevideo were being cashed by individuals who, his Secret Service told him, were Communist revolutionaries...
Meantime the neighboring convent of Sant Lazare has taken in a beautiful young waif, Dolores. The saintly prioress soon finds she has got more than she bargained for. Dolores' passionate influence is like a spark among the dry tinder of the convent. The nuns work hard, rise early and sleep in their own coffins, but some of them are overyoung to be the brides of heaven. Among these, Dolores' influence seems sinister if not definitely devilish. The prioress thinks she can make her into a good nun. But then young Pedro comes prowling around the walls, sees Dolores...
...Washington office, told them that the U. S. should build up its Army from 136,000 to 300,000 men in preparation for war in Europe. Warned he: "The situation in Europe is so bad that anything can happen at any time. The Saar at present is a tinder box. . . . Japan will never play a hand with us unless...