Word: torch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War of 1812, when British soldiers were firing Washington, a group of invaders arrived before the Patent Office, ready to apply the torch. Out on the portico strode Superintendent William Thornton, puffing and glowering. Bellowed he: "This is the emporium of the arts and sciences of America. Don't burn it!" The British commander stared, saluted, led his troops away...
Although there are many fine minds to be found in the contemporary world, Professor Whitehead dwarfs them all. He soars freely in the rarified atmosphere about which most of mankind only dreams. The torch he still holds aloft burns brightly only once in many generations, but it lights the way for succeeding, less creative inheritors, and lives on, as indestructible as philosophy itself...
...King sped to his snuggery, Fort Belvedere, 30 miles outside London, and was joined by Mrs. Simpson for the weekend. A reporter crawling that night among the giant rhododendrons ascertained that jazz was blaring and every window of the snuggery ablaze, before he was picked out by the electric torch of a constable too wise to make an arrest which would have made headlines...
...time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic pride, removes her eyes. He is exposed at last by an heroic and implausibly clever woman who turns an electric torch into his unprotected eyes while he is preparing for his favorite pastime...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp., which financed the bridge with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute to his staff. A steel-helmeted worker paid tribute to the daily average of 6,500 men employed in the construction. Then, wielding a dirty acetylene torch, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam severed a gold link in a silver chain across the bridge entrance. Said he profoundly: "This bridge is not the product...