Word: torches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time stride, went along with Mechem and Cutter to be a double-scorer. Captain Freddy Moseley fittingly enough tallied the last of the goals by players who will not be back next year, and the Sophomore line signified its intention to carry on the torch as George Roberts whipped in a neat concluding tally...
...Olympic torch popped up. On the other side of the run, the Olympic flag, which consists of a white background decorated with five interlocking circles to represent the Continents, floated into the air. The Olympic bell rang. All the church bells of Garmisch tinkled in response. A cannon, lugged into the arena by oxen, boomed. The bands played the Olympic hymn. The crowd cheered, clapped, yelped "Heils" that echoed down from the mountains. When the uproar began to die down, German Skier Willi Bogner scrambled up the steps of a rostrum decked with fir boughs, raised his right...
...plushy past. Hoosier-born (1869), William Vaughn Moody worked his way through Harvard, went on into graduate pastures, then started the climb to Parnassus by the academic path. It was while he was teaching English at the University of Chicago that he met "Harriet," who kept alive the torch of culture by all-night literary conversaziones around a lakeshore bonfire. When his drudged-out textbook's success set him free to travel and write for himself, Moody and Harriet kept their friendship going by mail. His letters were intimate but literary, extremely publishable. They are not love-letters...
...Traitor and the No. 2 Coward. What is known as British fair play won him upon his entry a veritable tumult of cheers from all parts of the House of Commons. His chief accuser, Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of official rectitude and a torch of moral indignation against The Deal, had been saving a place for Sam on the overcrowded third bench and as he squeezed into it. the pair cordially shook hands...
...with a general line of chemical products. The company specializes in two major products -acetylene and oxygen. A combination of acetylene and oxygen, ignited, burns at a temperature of 6,400° F.-the hottest flame that man has yet produced. The oxygen-acetylene flame, directed with an oxyacetylene torch, melts practically every kind of metal almost instantaneously. It has two kinds of uses: cutting metal, as in scrapping locomotives, battleships; welding metal, in which the oxyacetylene flame fuses the parts to be joined together. Air Reduction is so called because it reduces air-that is, it separates air into...