Word: fahrenheit
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Guarded deeply in a Paris cellar is a long platinum bar. When its temperature is that of melting ice (0° Centigrade, 32° Fahrenheit) two marks on that bar are exactly one metre apart. That Paris metre is the modulus of the world's weights and measures.* If the standard bar were lost, and all its master duplicates in the capitals of civilized countries, scientists would be hard put to recalculate the metre distance, except...
...undergraduate body but of which few indeed give evidence of being aware. I refer to the heating and ventilating of upper Widener. With a conscientiousness altogether in excess of the results achieved, the autocratic or powers that be maintain throughout the library a temperature of seventy eight degrees Fahrenheit. This every one knows is ten degrees more than the maximum for comforable living. Why it is considered permissible in the library I cannot imagine. Yet the fact remains...
...Rome the temperature touched 23° Fahrenheit-lowest at the season for 80 years-and a slight earthquake added to the general misery. The Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, remained imperturbably seated in his study during the four minutes of earthcrust wabbling...
...above zero Fahrenheit...
Lone night watches on the bridge, five-hour stretches in the engine-room with the temperature at 116 degrees Fahrenheit, systematic investigation and study of the innards of a light cruiser and the workings of those innards, were part of the program outlined for the members of the Naval Science Unit from the University who took a brief cruise down the Atlantic seaboard early last summer...