Word: heated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better reason than that Mrs. Smith's appendix was just out, but his presence was announced by a demonstration brief and sincere. None interrupted with conventional shouts while Mr. Lunn read: " . . . The declaration of party principles might well be tentatively drafted at the earliest possible moment. . . . In the heat and rush of the Convention the platform when finally written is, to my way of thinking, not sufficiently understandable to the masses of the people...
...years, sold them to General Electric. Four years ago he invented vacuum bulbs used in telephotography (sending still pictures by electricity or radio); three years ago he improved the bulb so that it would transmit moving pictures. His present researches seek to make lamps that will give light without heat. Towards that goal he has made some progress. On his inventions the Government has granted 100 patents. His home is at East Orange, N. J., not far from that of Mr. Edison...
...Abbot. Technically, he is an astrophysicist. To a few laymen, he is known as the man who has spent his adulthood studying the sun. Why? Because he wishes to forecast weather, weeks or months in advance, by discovering what the gases around the sun have to do with its heat radiation; also to find some feasible means of harnessing the sun's energy in man-made machines...
...Even when a nerve carriers 280 messages in a second, its temperature rises only 1-14,000th part of a degree." Who ever dreamed that a nerve is capable of carrying 280 messages in a single second? Or that the transportation thereof involves so minute a loss of heat? And by what means; pray, could such phenomena have been so accurately determined? Having thus aroused our curiosity, Professor Hill proceeds to tell us the whole story, sometimes in words alone, but oftener with the aid of well chosen diagrams, charts, or photographs...
...Dust. A big rubber man of Indo-China was pinned under the playwright's microscope and allowed to squirm heroically into the blessed state of matrimony. Scourges of the tropics?heat, drought, insects, dust?add to his squirms. He passes an uncomfortable and highly monosyllabic evening. He is the strong & silent type of rubber...