Word: heated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Helsingfors, Finland, inquisitive physiologists calculated the amount of energy, as measured by calories (heat units), necessary for humans to do various things. Their findings...
Like all poets, he finds language inadequate; is forced back upon "match-ends of burnt experience human enough to be understood." But from his match-ends he extracts white heat, terrific convulsions, monstrous images, without more linguistic violence than a harsh ellipsis and radical translations of character. He pictures...
Next day 500,000 persons watched as the coffin was drawn upon a gun carriage to the grave. At the cemetery President Cosgrave was so overcome by emotion and the excessive heat that he collapsed upon the ground. Strong arms raised him up. The service was majestically completed...
...represented by an aide, Major Desmazes who arrived briskly at the Mint last week, with several bearded senators. A blast furnace intended for melting silver was started, and into it workmen shoveled paper which had once been valued at the par equivalent of $4,000,000. The blazing heat and tedious length of this ceremony were deemed by physicians unsuitable to the health of massive Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, aged...
...write the story of a great civilization one must know where the electricity of existence has darted, one must know where the dynamic force of life has sparkled, and how, and why. All this eccentric and scattered heat produces the energy which makes a country flourish and grow strong. The huge engines of government are powered by insignificant fires, lighting a far-away gloom. In charting these fires history differs from documents, becomes imaginative literature...