Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police, the American embassy or Art Buchwald. I prefer the last." So do some 70 other travelers a week who write to chubby (196 lbs.) young (28) Columnist Art Buchwald seeking his expert advice on everything from what to do when the concierge turns off the heat in a Paris hotel (answer: "Go to another hotel...
There are ample reasons for all the hand trouble, report Drs. Richard L. Sutton Jr. and Samuel Ayres Jr. The hands are more exposed to heat, cold, light, moisture, irritant chemicals, sensitizing chemicals and germs than any other part of the body. Moreover, an infection or poisoning of the whole body may affect the hands with especial severity. Finally, because they are the most used organs of touch, they are subject to psychosomatic disturbances. ("The hands are busy if the mind is busy . . . agitated if the mind is agitated...
Comparative Ages. The age of the earth can be estimated in several ways. It loses heat to space, but it also gains heat from the decay of radioactive materials. By balancing the estimated losses against the gains, scientists have concluded that the earth's crust needed two to four billion years to reach its present temperature. The age of the crust can also be estimated by measuring the products of radioactive decay that are found in its oldest rocks. This figure comes out to about three billion years...
...discomforting similarity between his existence and that of a monk. The graduate school versus college question will, of course, be settled in top-level conferences in the Ivy League. The "creeping asceticism" versus "Charlieism" problem is being discussed somewhat lower in the academic hierarchy, with much of the heat of a genuine tug-of-war. In any event, the sides are now chosen and the battle begun...
...Heat (Robert Arthur; Columbia), like many another movie thriller, gets off to a fast start and then slows to a walk. An honest cop (Glenn Ford) defies his superiors by poking into the affairs of a big-shot gangster (Alexander Scourby) who seems implicated in a suicide. The bad men retaliate by planting a bomb in Ford's car. but blow up his wife (Jocelyn Brando) by mistake. Aided by Gloria Grahame. a lady of uncertain virtue who has been disfigured by one of the gangsters, Ford quits the police force and begins a one-man vendetta against Scourby...