Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electrical Engineers last week (see below) was Dr. Matthew Luckiesh's presentation of his new General Electric sunlight lamp. The bulb is 6¼ in. long. It contains two separated tungsten electrodes, a little pool of mercury, a tungsten filament. When the electric switch is turned, current heats the filament to incandescence. The heat vaporizes the mercury. The mercury vapor diffuses between the electrodes and permits the current to jump across as a brilliant mercury arc. The combined light of arc, electrodes and filament appears much whiter than Mazda "daylight" bulbs. It produces 40 times as much humanly beneficial...
...yard run, the three colleges will race in three final heats, staggering the lanes. Each college will be permitted three starters, one in each heat. Points will be awarded for the three fastest times...
Effects. The city was threatened with the closing of schools where even unpaid teachers could not work without heat. Provision merchants talked of cutting off the supply of food to the county's charitable institutions unless back bills were paid. Civil employes drew on their small savings, borrowed on their property, went to moneylenders for cash at 10% interest per month. The police department announced that it would take no steps to compel its men to repay such usurers. City and county paymasters pondered the idea of paying off employes with the tax warrants, which the banks would cash only...
Work for the K. of C. meet will not be hindered by the loss of the locker building, except that it will be impossible to heat either cage now since the heating apparatus was in the locker building and was demolished by the fire...
Pittsburgh would feel the heat and be tired from the ride, and who was Pittsburgh, anyway? In their nine straight victories this year they had not played the kind of stuff that was on Southern California's schedule. So figured Californians, more confident than ever when they felt the blaze of sunlight in the Rose Bowl. Every seat had been said for weeks. A whistle pricked the piled heat, and a minute later trim, curly-haired, squat Toby Uansa of Pittsburgh jumped through left tackle, snaked 68 yards. His wits spun after the tackle and he played...