Word: fahrenheit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this industry there is constant need for heating and cooling oil at both high and low temperatures--up to perhaps 1200 degrees Fahrenheit and down to 90 degrees below zero. In order that apparatus may be intelligently designed to do this work it is essential that the engineer have dependable information, so that he is often forced to substitute guesses for accurate knowledge...
...fortunate that their oxygen held out so long. No, they suffered no hardship except heat and thirst. Half the shell of the gondola had been painted black to absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result: When far aloft, the air was 75° below zero Fahrenheit outside, it was 106° above inside. Their drinking water ran out. They resorted to licking the condensed moisture from the walls of their cabin. As to their flight itself, they had ascended much faster than they desired. But "our ascent was of fairy-like beauty. . . . The rare glances from the cabin...
Morocco. The village of Ben Guerir topped all records with an official temperature of 131° Fahrenheit. Throughout Morocco camels, donkeys ran amok. The important Casablanca Marrakesh Railway canceled all daytime trains...
...Erebus, the steaming volcano, and watch the great whaling fleets in action. . . . The attractions of the Ross Sea are a pure germless atmosphere, 24 hours of sunshine every day at the season in which we shall visit it and a cold, dry, invigorating climate with the temperature around 31° Fahrenheit (one degree below freezing). . . . Our good ship will be especially strengthened to resist ice pressure...
Headquarters were made in Liberia, a quaint, sunbaked town and the political center of Guanacaste, where, in the weeks of January, the temperature for several hours each day averaged 108 degrees Fahrenheit. It was a fortunate circumstances that gave the botanists privilege of witnessing the yearly carnival or Fiestas Civicas, held in Liberia in the last days of January. Being the center of the cattle country where most citizens carry revolvers at their belts, the town, with its gaily popular celebrations, attracted the native cowboys or sabaneros. They rode in from long distances on fine horses, their saddles decorated...