Word: heated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some one suggested that "Woman-handled" would be a good title for a picture. Certain members of the concern held up their hands in tasteful protest but the notion persisted. This is the picture and indeed much better than the title deserves. It is a light comedy about steam heat and tennis courts on the erstwhile supposedly primitive ranches of the West. Richard Dix, good actor, is the star...
WHITE CARGO-Highly thermal happenings in Africa when a white man wilts, morally, in the lonely heat and goes native...
Essentially, this stuff is colloidal silica possessing immense absorbent qualities. It looks like coarse sand, but has pores so fine no microscope can detect them. In refining petroleum, it removes the sulphur-bearing constituents and gum-forming compounds. But, most remarkable, silica gel makes ice with the help of heat...
...principle of heat-induced ice is simple. Apply a vacuum pump to water, draw off the vapor, the result is ice. Silica gel grains act as a pump. In the pores of the silica gel, the vapor liquefies, giving it enormous power to absorb vapor. With a small flame under the gel the condensed vapor is driven off, so that its absorbent qualities are unimpaired until the remaining water is frozen...
...Dartmouth voiced their strong condemnation of existing procedure. We believe that the editors of these publications are reflecting the sanest, if not the most vociferous viewpoint of the undergraduate bodies, and we congratulate them for the courage with which they have stopped into a fight destined to engender much heat, and not a few casualties before it is concluded. The Independent...