Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy transports was retrieved, catalogued and stored. If the parachutes failed, the gear had to be dug out from beneath as much as 15 ft. of snow and ice. The camp's huts were put on stilts: on the surface they would become uncomfortably humid as their radiated heat melted the snow beneath them. Oil stoves had to be checked; properly installed, they are the antarctic's greatest comfort, but explosion can bring fiery death, and carbon monoxide, silent extinction...
...dioxide. CO² is comparatively plentiful downwind from industrial areas such as the Ruhr, and there is a good possibility that man's fires and engines are adding so much of it to the atmosphere that the world's climate may be changed drastically by the solar heat that it traps. Rossby wants to find out about this little matter...
Otis Dozier's themes-grasshoppers and bulls, Indian corn in the hot summer fields, a humid-swamp night scene-can be readily identified by any Texan. But his grasshopper is not just a laboratory specimen; it is a wondrous creature of heat and noise. When he painted Brahma Bull, Dozier did not try to provide a guessing game for Texas cattlemen adept at estimating values on the hoof, but to capture "the thing you always feel about a bull. He's the most powerful of the animal kingdom, and he seems to know it." In Place...
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 (Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli; Mercury). A sweeping, full-throated song, written with far more springtime power and heat than might be expected from an 83-year-old, but in a harmonic idiom that suits his age. Barbirolli's orchestra matches Williams' enthusiasm note for note, dyne...
Michael R. Milano and Gerald M. Amero wrote in behalf of the residents of Weld South that the low temperature in their rooms between 9 p.m. and 9 a.m. was "conducive to colds." The next day, two engineers placed a thermograph in the yardlings' room, which measured the heat in the room, and three days later a new thermostat was giving more heat to Weld...