Word: heated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drench all of us with blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit* [the temperature of the death shock] with 100 degrees in the shade when you complain of the heat and you get some idea how cultured and conservative Massachusetts roasts her murderers alive. . . . And how these Bostonians get a dead man out of the chair! . . . Elliott . . . started to put on the electrode and now I observed that Vanzetti was getting nervous. . . . There was a sickening stench of scorched flesh...
...False. A death shock consists of 1,500 to 2,000 volts of electricity. The resistance of the prisoner's body would not produce 1,000 degrees of heat unless the current were continued for about four and one-half minutes. Because of its high voltage, the death shock does not have to be and is not protracted beyond one and one-half minutes. No great heat is generated in the victim's body in that time...
...bright as this biggest and brightest light in Illinois. When 17,200 watts of current are turned on, the crater of the new light's arc becomes the hottest spot on earth-38,000° Fahrenheit. Quartz prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with an intensity of 1,385,000,000 candle power,* will not blister the skin of persons keeping more than 1,000 feet distant. Engineers predicted that on clear nights the Monticello beam, if aimed vertically, would be visible to the naked eye 600 miles...
...first heat Baby Water Car of Detroit turned over. In the second Imp of New York hit a buoy. Hotsy Totsy of New York took fire. Greenwich Folly had to average only 48 miles per hour for three 30-mile heats...
...flying field. They wave goodbye, and, when the absent one returns, he finds them once more at the field, dock, or station, pre-.pared to clasp his hand. All four are sons of the King and Emperor George V; and neither storm nor snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these brothers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds...