Word: torch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adjusted under the S-51's hull. Together, with a combined lifting capacity of 350 tons, they failed to budge the sunken craft. They tried a second time and failed. It was concluded that the submarine had entirely filled with water. A diver with an oxy-acetaline torch cut a tiny hole in the engine room hatch. A few air bubbles escaped. Then nothing more. The compartment was filled with water...
...lost from heat pipes when they are properly swaddled. Before the Anaconda Copper Co.'s glittering display, the crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle of platinum filings! Of palladium! In a far corner, a genial little man plunged a gas blow torch into a jug of water. "See, it still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps and tanks mix with ordinary city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine...
? Sounded by the national hero-priest, Hildago, on Sept. 16, 1810, to call the people of Dolores to arms. The movement thus begun kindled the torch of Mexican revolt which unseated Spain...
Against the flare he had just set off stood the aviator immobile as a statue, while the landscape, leaping out of shadow at the summons of his fantastic torch, assumed around him an aspect of exaggerated horror; water-rotted trees at the river's edge stretched their arms in stiff attitudes of torment, like ghouls petrified in the death-agony; the motionless grain at his feet seemed to have been cemented, by the mist and the strange light, into an acre of solid stone. As he peered under his hand, trying in vain to see beyond the circle his flare...
...stroke the real purpose of a higher institution of learning? Higher institutions of learning have lived through long ages, seen nations rise and fall, governments come and go in their real purpose to follow up truth. It does not seem to me that any such machinery carries torth the torch of truth on its way through the life of an individual in the life of society as a whole - can any business managership or other such goals so much sought do other than tend to lead one into narrowness from the lack of thought gives such ends as truth. Cannot...