Word: baths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago health authorities, ticking off three deaths in Chicago steam baths in recent months "from shock and exposure," called on the city council to ban steam-bath temperatures of more than 100° until the authorities can complete a safety study. (Present conventional ranges: 130° to 160°.) This aroused a storm of indignation among the bathhouse operators. Cried Charles Postl, 72, oldtime Loop steam-bath impresario: "Why, you can't even work up a good sweat at 100°. This is ridiculous. The whole civilized world will laugh at Chicago...
...evidence of vandalism by deer and elk hunters, heard from one rancher who found a cake of soap floating in his galvanized iron cattle-watering trough this fall, and then discovered a pit containing wood ashes beneath it. A luxury-loving hunter, he deduced, had not only taken a bath in the trough but had carefully heated the water first. Another hunter, according to the association's files, rode out on the range in search of game, dismounted to reconnoiter, sighted an animal, shot it, rushed up, knife in hand, to slit his quarry's throat, and discovered...
OMan will probably make few cakes. He will retire soon to one of those dread no-man's-lands behind the concrete shields of nuclear reactors or plutonium processing plants. There he will work in a bath of radiation that would strike a human dead, and his massive steel body will become so radioactive that his human creators can never come near him again...
...from the fastest (19 knots) or biggest (22,071 tons) member of that fleet, the Kungsholm justified all Sweden's pride in her. She has an atmosphere of quiet elegance. All cabins have a bath and their own air-conditioning controls; all are outside...
...series of crosses and doublecrosses, is laughable right down to the finish line. All the main parts are played with expert pace and restraint, but the real stars of the show remain the fossil vehicles, as wild a sight on a modern highway as a pterodactyl in a bird bath...