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Word: burningly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe the solar star-stuff has been hot for billions of years and will be so for billions of years more, have long cudgeled their brains for a reason why. Most favored of recent theories is that hydrogen is the fuel. It is known that the sun does not "burn" hydrogen, in the sense of releasing stored chemical energy as from coal; it physically changes fragments of hydrogen atoms directly into radiation. But the question remains: Just what atomic processes enable the hydrogen to be utilized as fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Stuff | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Altho.ugh the Doukhobors, a Russian reli gious sect, are usually thrifty and peace-loving, eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco, their conscientious clashes with the Government have been numerous, made fine headlines. They resent provincial schools so much that they sometimes burn them. Believers in going naked, they occasionally scandalize their neighbors by bare-skin parades protesting against the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Guests: At cocktail parties, don't burn up the rugs and table tops, don't slop drinks, don't stay all night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Manners | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Except for two exhibition games, one against the Junior Olympics last week and one with the Brae Burn Country Club team last night, the Crimson six has not played since its 4 to 2 victory over Princeton on January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Hockey Team Will Face Off With Saint Nicks of New York Saturday at Boston Arena | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

...shot, the Iron Guards were discovered last week to have been not only hatching new plots but making new weapons. When a German-owned factory near Bucharest was raided, it was found that under an army lieutenant a crew of workmen, chauffeurs and students was making flamethrowers that would burn a foe to a crisp at 100 yards. Green shirts said they had planned to take over the Government "even if we had to burn down Bucharest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Flames for Rifles | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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