Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broiler heat of a tin-roofed basketball stadium, 863 delegates of the Philippines' Liberal Party gathered one day last week to nominate a presidential candidate. For the first time in the party's brief postwar history, it had a choice to make. The alternatives: to renominate powerful and clever President Elpidio Quirino for a second term, or shuck him and his corruption-tainted regime and nominate peppery Carlos Romulo, ex-Foreign Secretary, ex-president of the United Nations General Assembly...
Like Britain's Cumberland station, North American's plant will also be able to produce atomic fuel, i.e., plutonium. But its main purpose will be the study of practical production of electric power. Liquid metal (probably sodium) circulating through the reactor will absorb the tremendous heat generated by atomic fission. Piped through a water boiler, the superheated metal will produce steam. The steam, in turn, will drive a conventional turbogenerator...
...gives it a musty, scholarly flavor. There are books for every type of student in the 6,250-book reference collection. Prison ethnologists, for instance, delight in the Dictionary of the Underworld which sets into plain language such technical phrases as slice (knife wound) and to slip on the heat (v., trans; to shool a person, especially to death). Sociologists specializing in higher strata may find more help in the Who's Who of Polish Americans, Librarians, Texans, or even the Argentinian Quien en Quien. Detrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage provides excellent pictures of family crests' and advertisements...
This spreading envelope of gas around the earth, says Johns Hopkins Physicist Gilbert N. Plass, serves as a great greenhouse. Transparent to the radiant heat from the sun, it blocks the longer wave lengths of heat that bounce back from the earth. At its present rate of increase, says Plass, the CO ² in the atmosphere will raise the earth's average temperature 1.5° Fahrenheit every 100 years...
...blanket of CO ² gets thicker, it also prevents the tops of clouds from losing heat as rapidly as before. The smaller temperature difference between cloud base and top cuts down the air currents which must circulate through the cloud before rain or snow can form. Lowered rainfall will make a drier climate. Less cloud cover will be formed, more sunlight will reach the earth, and the average temperature will rise still higher...