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Word: heated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest between the eights the second Freshman boat, stroked by Greer, led two Union Boat Club shells and the third Freshman outfit across the finish line. The third 1929 boat and the first Union Boat Club crew finished in a dead heat two and a half lengths behind the winning shell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND FRESHMAN CREW WINS IN INVITATION REGATTA RACE | 5/20/1926 | See Source »

...statements attributed to me which reflect upon our student body, I withdraw. ... I express to you, one and all, my deep sorrow. . . ." He went on to say that he had been caught completely off his guard by a question from Senator Reed at the hearing, had spoken in the heat of an excited moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Can Rectify | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...sugar-cane waste also deadens sound was immaterial to them. What they valued most was that it would keep out cold-cold which they expected would reach 50° to 60° below zero during part of their journey towards the Pole, and that it would keep within doors heat adequate for comfort. They might have taken along "Balsam Wool" (Wood Conversion Co., Cloquet, Minn.), "Fibrofelt" (Union Fibre Co., Winona, Minn.), "Corkboard" (Armstrong Cork & Insulation Co., Pittsburgh), "Insulite" (Insulite Co., Minneapolis), "Garrettite" (C. S. Garrett Co., Philadelphia), "Quilt" (Samuel Cabot Co., Boston), or "Mineral Wool" (U.S. Mineral Wool Co., Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Celotex, Etc. | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...broke the restraining grasp of the firemen, of Mr. and Mrs. Kronk, dashed up the cinder-hot stairs, bent over the baby's crib. Smoke made her eyes dazzle. She could see nothing in the crib. Was it possible that the baby had been carried out after all? Heat licked at her skirt, singed her arms; terrible heat burrowed in her eyesockets. No, there he was; he lay with his head on his quilt, his legs squirming pinkly on his pillow. Great-grandmother Messinger picked him up, carried him out, collapsed into the arms of Mr. Kronk. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...Thereafter, whenever the moon was not full, Mr. Brown almost daily caused his chef to heat large panfuls of gold and silver coins as hot as possible on the galley stove. The beggars of Brightlingsea, anxious to humor his whims, appeared in rowboats and caught the coins in their bare hands as Mr. Brown hurled the bits of gold and silver overboard with a shovel. If the beggars attempted to use gloves, he hurled boiling water upon them instead. When the moon was full, he hurled nothing at all. Occasionally he wrapped lumps of coal in £100 notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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