Word: cold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of parents, July's polio scares in North Carolina, California and Texas (see MEDICINE) seemed more real and frightening than the Russian blockade of Berlin. Shade, cold beer, watermelon and air conditioning assumed a great seasonal significance. California fruitgrowers and shippers noted an increase in the demand for lemons...
...Curve in the Road. Then, a few years after The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky began to change his whole style. What had been warm and violent became-from about 1920 on-cold, classical, clear, calculated. Why? Today Stravinsky shrugs: "Who knows what causes change? You never see the change when you are driving along. A little curve in the road and suddenly you are proceeding east, another and you head north. One is unaware...
...banked home on a hill overlooking Hollywood's famed Sunset "Strip," Stravinsky is now writing an opera (with Poet W. H. Auden) fashioned from Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and has just finished a Mass to "appeal directly to the spirit. Therefore, I sought very cold music, absolutely cold. No women's voices. They are by their very nature warm; they appeal to the senses...
Syphilis & the Common Cold. In research, P.H.S. has chalked up a notable list of firsts. Among them: discovery (1914) of the cause, cure and prevention of pellagra; identification (1925) of brucellosis (undulant fever); first use (1942) of continuous caudal anesthesia in childbirth; proof (1943) of the effectiveness of penicillin in the treatment of syphilis; demonstration (1941) that fluorides reduce tooth decay; isolation (1947) of one of the agents causing the common cold...
...essentials of the air engine are extremely simple: a "hot space" heated by an external firebox, a "cold space" cooled by water or air, and two pistons. When one piston shifts cold air into the hot space, the air expands and pushes the second piston away in a power stroke. Then the first piston shunts the air back to the cold space, where it contracts and is ready to start another cycle. A regenerator made of crimped steel wire between the hot & cold spaces keeps heat from being wasted by the moving...