Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soggy heat and humidity of late summer lay across the U.S. last week as parents bought new shirts and shoes and got ready to send their children back to school. From Key West, Fla. to Port Angeles, Wash, a record-shattering 41,533,000 students began to enroll in the U.S.'s often overcrowded and understaffed schools and colleges-1,754,300 more than last year, and an astonishing one-fourth of the nation's population. "It gets to be more fun each year," said Mrs. Creta McVean, teacher of the first grade of Dallas' James...
...Washington was Stella Walsh, 45, who competed for Poland in the 1932 and '36 Olympics, once held almost every record in the book, and was eligible to try for the U.S. team, thanks to her week-old marriage to a U.S. citizen. Stella finished third in her heat of the 200-meter dash and failed to make the team...
...vapor compression. Sea water is pumped into a low-pressure chamber where a part of it is turned into vapor; part is frozen; the remainder passes off as a concentrated brine. The vapor is then slightly compressed. This process turns the vapor into pure water and also generates enough heat to melt the pure ice crystals...
...rocket that will lift the moon to about 130 miles altitude, says the Navy, and is finished on the final, payoff stage that will push the moon into its orbit. Engines for all three stages have roared through ground tests. Engineers are confident that they will lick one bugaboo: heat damage to the nose of the rocket caused by aerodynamic friction...
...Needled by Communist bigwigs, Russian track and field stars turned on the heat in the last few days of Moscow's Spartakiada sports festival. A runner virtually unknown in the West, Semyon Rzhishchin, lowered the world 3,000-meter steeplechase record to 8:39.8. Soviet swimmers dropped the 4OO-meter medley relay mark...