Word: heated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ascent, Vag muses, is little better than The Descent. The numbness which has held him in thrall all this time--and which has been the only thing to make life possible at all in the long torturing weeks of the Biannual Heat--now stubbornly refuses to depart. Everything--mind, body,--seems permanently, albeit painlessly, frozen with the icy breath of the Great Fear, which is said to be the odorless exhaust generated by one of the machines which throb all around Vag. Once or twice since The Descent began, Vag has been able to rouse himself from this lethargy...
...invited to KMOX again. This time he knew all the answers. Glancing over his spectacles now and then at the big studio clock as he rolled off his message. Parson Sieck was pleased to fancy that he and the big second hand were finishing in an expert dead heat. "Glory to God in the highest," he intoned, "Amen...
Conceded the best chance to place is Jaako Mikkola's two mile relay team, composed of Ros Brayton. Al Hanlon, Jack McClure, and Joe Bradley. Pitted against Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, and N.Y.U. in the second heat of the event, the quartet will not be running against a crack North Carolina baton-passing combination which hopes to pare the 7.44 Millrose record...
...Lightbody, Franny King, Joe Donnelly, and Hobart Lerner, running against Yale and Princeton in the Big Three heat of the mile relay, have their work cut out to beat the Tiger aggregation. A green Eli four does not look so formidable...
Neither is given more than an outside chance to place in one of the fastest fields of the indoor season, although Donahue's 5.8 clocking in the 45 yard highs at the Prout games Saturday got him into the final heat, in which he placed fourth...