Word: torches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after 4 p. m., the great hay barn of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. was touched off, authorities believe, by a cigaret butt flicked from careless fingers. The hay acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...
...issue of the magazine has appeared since. What their subscribers must think at this late date one does not care to conjecture, yet their defalcation has had a more serious effect than the quenching of but another torch of culture. In the field of Harvard publication, there is definite place for a fourth magazine. It should cover controversial topics of a sociological, political nature, collegiate and national, in a hard-hitting, strikingly readable style, somewhat in the manner of the New Republic or The Nation. It should not squabble in the abstract, rummage in the antique. It should be backed...
Authentic scenery and production methods of the eighteenth century are reproduced. Footlights are lighted by torch and all the scene changes are made (in full view of the audience) by consumed stage hands...
...salute you, men and women, born in a war period, bravely facing failure to replace anarchy with government, taking up the torch of civilization!" spat out white-haired, dinner-jacketed Manley O. Hudson '01, Bemis Professor of International Law, closing the initial meeting of the New England Model League Assembly in the New Lecture Hall last evening. Saved to the end of a red-tape program which had obviously bored him, to prevent the audience from melting away, Professor Hudson had benignantly fulfilled the League's hopes telling the assemblage that the institution which they imitate is a going concern...
From their grimy Midland factory towns, the late Enoch Arnold Bennett and David Herbert Lawrence went on to bigger and brighter themes. Now Authoress Phyllis Bentley, whose background is the textile industry of Yorkshire's West Riding, has taken up the smoky torch. The scene she dimly illuminates is industrial, but its appealingly human inhabitants move in solid outline against the drab shadow of mills...