Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat up the country to put its hoardings into these securities as a patriotic duty, to convince it that they are as "good as gold," C. R.O. planned a high-pressure house-to-house selling campaign early in March...
...Conference on Home Building & Home Ownership last December. The U. S. is poorly housed. Probably less than half of its homes measure up to "minimum standards of health and decency." Its slums are among the worst in the world. Only one out of four farms has central light and heat, running water, a bathroom. One source of improvement will come from putting attractive homes within the reach of the small wage-earner who hitherto has given 20% of his income to a landlord. Low construction costs make the present opportune for such a movement, and building materials companies with little...
Copper-nickel alloys, said Dr. Paul Dyer Merica of International Nickel Co., are now prepared by heat treatment to stand a pull of 175,000 Ib. per sq. in., a tensile trength comparable to that of heat-treated steel...
...angry sun beats down as though it might bubble the dust. Heat pours out of a merciless sky and heat swirls up from the scorching desert floor to meet it. Glimmering waves of heat dance out of the iron-hot Funeral Range and Panamint Mountain until it seems that the whole world lies waiting for one final and consuming igneous blast. . . . Then, on the waltzing surface of distant alkali, a lake of sweet cool waters appears. But the wise desert rat astride his fuzzy burro passes his tongue between cracked lips, smiles ironically and sets the portent down as Death...
...less than 50% of all U. S. homes measure up to the minimum standards of health and decency set by the National Housing Association. These standards include sunlight, proper ventilation, dry walls, garbage removal, adequate fire protection, a water closet, running water inside the house. A bathtub, central light, heat, and a telephone are not considered necessary...