Word: burningly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stableyard a second policeman was killed while an angry crowd chanted: "Kill them! Burn them out!" When gasoline was tossed on the brown straw of the stable roof, the Corneuils stumbled out, black shadows against the crackling yellow flames. The Widow Corneuil and one son were instantly killed. The second son escaped to the shadows of the woods behind the house, to be captured next day, the 200 francs still unpaid, two charges of murder against...
...predicts that its Diesels will operate at half the cost of gasoline engines and with greater simplicity. Impatient prophets who interpret this as a sign that automobiles with Diesel engines are close at hand will have to burn while General Motors fiddles, according to Boss Kettering. Said he, opening the new plant: "You would not buy a Stradivarius violin and give it to a man to play in Carnegie Hall the same night. We have got a good fiddle, we know that, but we have got to do a lot of practicing...
...Speeding military trucks added to the confusion, running down soldiers and refugees who did not step aside in time. I saw a munitions truck explode near me and watched an armored car burn. At Fengyang a red-eyed, swollen-lipped figure hailed me. He was General Sun Lien-chung, Commander of the 26th Battalion. He stood disconsolately outside the gate of the city and remarked: 'Things are upside down...
Abbott believes it is the largest U. S. maker of barbiturates, ephedrine products and arsenicals, also sells Haliver Oil, Metaphen, Chlorazene, Butyn" Estrone, some 1,200 other drugs grouped under such categories as vitamins, burn preparations, antiseptics, local anesthetics, hormones, pollens. Drs. Abbott & Burdick died years ago. President of Abbott Laboratories now is S. DeWitt Clough, who joined the company 33 years ago as sales manager, is still partial to high-pressure sales-technique. Also partial to good employe relations, he is generally popular with Abbott's 1,639 workers. They are about half as numerous as the rats...
...graduates, their families, and friends gather, from near and far to mingle with students in their rooms, and celebrate the victory to which all are looking forward. To close these parties out at seven, if past experience is a guide, will be pouring water on flames of festivity still burning brightly and well, flames which should be allowed to burn longer if their whole warmth is to be felt...