Word: heating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...population tends naturally to increase faster than the means of subsistence, is accepted by every scholar and is easily demonstrable to all who grant the soundness of the elementary theorems of arithmetic. We can raise the saturation point of the earth in terms of population by new discoveries, as heat raises the saturation point of water in terms of various salts. But since we can neither enlarge our universe nor emigrate from it, we can never abrogate the law of population by such means, if prolific Nature is allowed full sway. We are trapped by our reproductive efficiency...
...inspite of women's suffrage, the widespread influence of modernistic schools of thought, and the unhampered liberty of the rising generation, it brings up an issue which today is far from dead--the great thundercloud of 30 years ago is still anything but a pale glimmer of heat lightening on the distant horizon...
...three men started from San Antonio over the concrete road to Austin, 89.4 miles away. Cool of dawn gave way to scorching heat of day as the runners loped easily along at a pace that would have frightened a Finn. After covering 30 miles Salido, sickened by fumes of automobiles which lined the road, succumbed to cramps; Zafiro and Torres, less sensitive, continued...
Engineering is after all nothing but the application of science to a multitude of activities, such as; the gathering of minerals, oils, coal, and other natural products, and preparing them for use: the production of light, heat, and power from fuels and falling water; electric communications; the manufacture of chemicals, engines, machines, and innumerable commodities; railway, highway, and water transportation, and the construction and operation of numerous works for public safety and welfare. These enterprises require many kinds of talent in a great variety of duties, such as the planner, the builder the inventor, the investigator and the executive, requiring...
Albania is a country of grim politics, sudden tribal uprisings, secret murders, and foreign intrigues. No man was even better suited to such an environment than Fan Noli and those interested it Albanian politics will be sure to heat from him soon again...