Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep of Governor Frank Merriam. Today 22 States have chain store taxes. Into the heated session of the California Legislature, Progressives introduced a chain store tax on a California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression up to $500 on the tenth and each additional store. Since California has only 9,000 chain...
...Stark Young's South seem to grow animated only when they discuss family history, they are distinguished by their even tempers and their love for their own quiet sections of the temperate zone. They may suffer like gentlefolk from post-Civil War melancholy but never from prickly heat...
...that they were manacled upright ten hours a day for nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but soon went out, that at night they slept without fire, with only scraps of blankets for covers. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes had plenty of heat, plenty of covers. The Negroes say their feet froze because it was wintry co!d. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes stopped circulation in their feet when they padded their leg irons with rags and strings...
...fuel was used to power a small, 3-h.p. test engine of one cylinder, running at 1,200 r.p.m. Heat conveyed from the exhaust vaporizes the Solene and it is then drawn directly into the combustion chamber. There is no carburetor. The exhaust is almost entirely clear, indicating nearly complete combustion. Although they have no test data to prove it, Solene's sponsors think it will mean fuel economy and increased flying range for airplanes. A wick lamp filled with it burned seven times as long as with kerosene...
...centre until today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other heavy elements 4,000 miles in diameter surrounded by a rocky shell 2,000 miles thick. As eons pass, "the persistent release of atomic forces continue, and will continue to supply heat and melt the surrounding shell with the result that Mother Earth may eventually take her place among the stars...