Word: heated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey, clad in fat trees and voluptuous clover on a still, close night last week . . . now lies prostrated, ravished, wrecked, shivered, torn, blasted. As if razed by ten years' surging warfare, the fields and villages nearby Lake Denmark, shrouded in grey gunpowder dust, welter in the July heat, pocked and gashed by a terrific bombardment...
...animal that, on minimum food, would work harder in hot weather than a mule. This he succeeded in doing, although the zebroids are difficult to break to harness However, at six years old, the eight zebroids do any farm work that horses perform, and can unquestionably stand far more heat, which is the purpose of the zebra strain. The beasts are docile and intelligent in harness, but race boisterously once loosened in an enclosure, showing speed and agility in pivoting at corners, rivaling panthers in their ease in clearing fences. If the beasts are corraled with horses, the horses...
...only Hottentots for neighbors. He will take daily readings from a bolometer capable of registering to a millionth of a degree the sun's radiation. His daily telegrams to Washington will be studied by long-range weather-forecasters, who, working on the theory that fluctuations in solar heat occasion all terrestrial weather disturbances, will warn farmers, mariners, aeronauts and the parent planning his child's picnic, of coming storms...
...Senators, Messrs. Capper of Kansas, Frazier of North Dakota, Greene of Vermont, Pepper of Pennsylvania, Stanfield of Oregon, McLean of Connecticut and Metcalf of Rhode Island, sat around the snowy napery of the President's breakfast table. They lifted their eyebrows significantly and discussed whether or not the heat might force Congress to adjourn about the middle of June...
...HEAT-Isa Glenn-Knopf ($2.50). This hot jungle of a book contains an innocent West Pointer, a brainy girl from the States and a Dolores whose scented mantilla appears at first to be the real Castilian thing. The scene is perfumed Manila, "charged with alien, bewildering passions" (cf. jacket). The West Pointer is not inflamed by the virtue of his countrywoman's doctrine of drainage and spelling for the natives, but Dolores, an honest-to-goodness Spanish senorita, and in trouble-well, that is different. When the clay feet of Dolores peep from beneath her wicked skirts, the West...