Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesman in Washington would never pull him through the Democratic primary in Georgia next September. Every sounding indicated that ex-Governor (1948-54) Herman Talmadge, 42, who had not even announced his candidacy, was pulling far ahead. Unable to face the prospect of a wearing campaign in the searing heat of July and August, George last week made the painful decision: he would withdraw from the Senate race...
...heat seems to be off now. But it was pretty uncomfortable for a while, what with Cronin's half-empty on Saturday night and the Casablanca equally devoid of its usual group of sociables. The ironic thing about it all was that the crackdown had nothing to do with college excesses or even with bars. A fourteen year-old boy was found in very bad shape due to the effects of a quart of Scotch from a local package store. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved in, everywhere, with a vengeance...
...Trend to Drugs. There may have been as much heat as light on Surgeon Bailey's operating table, but the trend toward new directions was illustrated by several other speakers who had proposals to make rather than criticisms. Montreal's famed Stressor Hans Selye (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950) flew in to declare his faith that physiological change is related to emotional disturbance. Recent research shows that three classes of hormones can create such varied "psychic" disorders as pathological confusion or excitement, chronic fatigue (neurasthenia), deep depression, psychoses or neuroses during pregnancy, convulsive seizures, paralytic "spells," and even degenerative...
Steel & the Nautilus. Known since 1789, zirconium has long been one of the world's commonest (ninth most abundant) but least used metallic elements. Hard, heat-resistant (melting point: 1,845° C.), almost corrosion-proof, zirconium cost $315 a Ib. as late as 1945, was a laboratory curiosity beyond the purse of U.S. industry. In the postwar years, National Lead Co., Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. and others learned to produce commercial-grade zirconium as a hardening material for steel (1,500,000 Ibs. at $10 a Ib. was shipped in 1955). But in 1948, with the start...
...Crimson junior varsity finished by abouttwo lengths in the qualifying heat, trailing Cornell, the eventual J.V.Sprints winner, and M.I.T. Cornell was clocked at 6:54.6. The Crimson heavyweight freshman boat, a surprise finalist according to seedings, finished fifth behind Navy, Yale, Princeton, and Penn. Navy covered the course...