Word: fahrenheit
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...Harvard Hall is kept at 110 degrees Fahrenheit...
...novel Dandelion Wine was a firm, straightforward remembrance of a youth in Illinois. His science fiction, however, has drawn him into a world he never dreamed of entering. Ingmar Bergman corresponds with him. Fran?ois Truffaut is writing the scenario for the movie version of his novel Fahrenheit 451. Christopher Isherwood has compared Bradbury to Edgar Allan Poe. And Ilya Ehrenburg says that he is one of the five most popular American writers in the Soviet Union, along with Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Spillane...
Steam from the Cambridge Electric Company's boilers enters the three pipes in the Tunnel at a pressure of one hundred pounds per square inch and a temperature of 425-430 degrees Fahrenheit. (Depending on the needs of the University, one or more of these pipes may be shut down.) After going through reducing valves which lower its pressure to about five pounds per square inch, the steam travels to individual buildings where it heats tanks of water. The Houses and most other buildings outside the Yard have their own water reservoirs, including separate tanks for domestic hot water...
Vaporization of polonium occurs at the burning temperature of the cigarette (1112 to 1472 degrees Fahrenheit), and it is carried into the lungs by attaching itself to the inhaled smoke particles, according to the report's findings. Most of it is eventually taken up by "scavenger cells" and carried over the bronchial lining to the throat...
After seven months the patient had enough sensation in his fingertips to detect temperature differences of two or three degrees Fahrenheit. He could write, play pingpong, pick up weights of more than 13 lbs., and wield a hammer with authority...