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Word: heat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOLMES HALL concert of students compositions was held in an unpretentious atmosphere as players simply performed the works without recourse to program notes or composer apologias. And there was an intermission, presumably for ventilation, since the room was stifling with a midsummer night heat. I went to the concert expecting to be neither electrified, moved, outraged, nor jaded...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: New Music | 5/5/1969 | See Source »

Finger Dexterity. By now, Tichauer is so accustomed to the uninformed mistakes of machinery makers that he can readily redesign almost any device used by modern man. He would, for example, move the control of an electric skillet farther away from the heat and replace the dial, which requires great finger dexterity, with something even an arthritic old lady could manage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Building a Better Mouse Trap | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Harvard's sprinters also hope to pick up points in the 220 with three men qualifying, and in the 100, where John Schneider took first in his heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victory Seems Certain In Boston Track Meet | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

Sophomore John Gillis took his qualifying heat in 48.9 as Colburn qualified by coming in third. In the 440 hurdles, John Metzger and Ben Lounsbury each gained a place on the starting line today by taking their heats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victory Seems Certain In Boston Track Meet | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

Jimmy Stewart's Oscar for The Philadelphia Story was workman's compensation for losing the year before in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Rod Steiger's was actually for The Pawnbroker instead of In the Heat of the Night, as announced. Walter Matthau's Oscar came, he admits, "because I had a heart attack. They hate to give you anything when you're dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trade: Grand Illusion | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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