Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circular core, hung on a duraluminum mast planted on, not in, the ground, is lashed together by guy-wires on a system of triangular tensions, like an airplane. A square house piles up air pressure on the windward side, creates a vacuum on the leeward side, thus sucking the heat out. The streamlined house slides the wind off, fills the leeward vacuum space, saves heat, requires less resistance to wind stress. A cone on the housetop lets in air which settles evenly down in a slow draft...
Spain's mid-August heat is dry, oppressive. Business, traffic and government move slowly. Public officials leave Madrid for a rest, as did President Niceto Alcala Zamora last week. But heat meant nothing to a veteran of Moroccan campaigns, swart General Jose Sanjurjo,* good friend of the late Dictator Primo De Rivera and of exiled King Alfonso, whom he faintly, fatly resembles. "Just the time for a coup d'état," he chuckled to himself as he sped south from Madrid one torrid night. Next day Sevillanos on their way to lunch heard the clatter of hoofs...
...first Japanese victory in the Xth Olympiad was won last week in the 100-metre free style swim, when 17-year-old Yasuji Miyazaki of Tokyo, who had set an Olympic record in his semifinal heat, won by an arm's length, with Tatsugo Kawaishi. his teammate, second...
...fought for the lead through the first 100 metres, to catch him. If he had cleared the tenth barrier, Saling's time? 14.6 sec.?would have tied the Olympic record. He had beaten it and tied the world's record?14.4?in a semi-final heat...
...examined from the rear last week by Los Angeles urchins who followed the walkers through Griffith Park. Thomas William Green, 39-year-old English railroad worker, was immune to jeers or encouragement. He started slowly, took the lead after 28 mi., when seven other walkers had collapsed from the heat, finished first in 4 hr., 50 min., 10 sec. Second was Janis Dalinsh of Latvia. He collapsed at the finish, had to be carried home as did Ugo Frigerio, winner of Olympic walking races in 1920 and 1924, who came in third...