Word: heating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skillet is done in two minutes and backs off blinking, sweating and choking, having finished the hardest job of getting dinner. But my hardest job lasts not two minutes but the better part of half an hour. My spoon weighs 25 pounds, my porridge is pasty iron and the heat of my kitchen is so great that if my body was not hardened to it the ordeal would drop me in my tracks. ... I am like some frantic baker in the inferno kneading a batch of iron bread for the devil's breakfast...
...contrast to the flery heat of Berlioz, there is the cooler, less sensuous and more spiritual music of Debussy, exemplified this afternoon by two nocturnes. Debussy's work has always seemed to me, if I be pardoned for what may seem to some a grievous confusion of arts, to partake somewhat of the nature of pictures by Corot and some of the Impressionists. There is in them the same silvery quality of overtone, the same sort of shimmering airiness that is found in the paintings; an almost wraithlike quality with its appeal to the imagination combined with an emotional body...
Louis Pasteur (1822-95) originated the cure for incipient hydrophobia in humans. He had confirmed positively that germs cause disease and that some might be killed by heat. This is the principle upon which milk is pasteurized, an important point. But of far greater importance in medicine is another fact that Louis Pasteur verified - many diseases may be prevented and cured by injecting into the patient an attenuated solution of the very germ that caused the disease. This is immunity, and was first applied with scientific precision to humans by Louis Pasteur in the 1880's. With hydrophobia, this...
...skyline ridge which should have a trail. A simple thought. But before it is wrought out, the details of the ground must be examined in the rough (where a mile an hour is usually the maximum); there are hours totaling days of fighting through underbrush and blowdowns, in heat, perhaps storm, usually flies. Woe to the man who does not bring to bear all his mental powers to ease his way and save his nerves instead of wearing himself out in "building through"; every step of the way and every foot of the trail is a challenge to his judgment...
...ROMANTIC COMEDIANS?Ellen Glasgow?Doubleday, Page ($2.50). Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell?note his middle name? was jilted in the heat of his Southern-Victorian youth by queenly Amanda Lightfoot. On the rebound he married a dovelike Cordelia whose solicitude for his digestion during their 36 years together far surpassed her sublimation of his romantic tendencies?or, dare we say, his passions. They had no children. She modestly discouraged his tenderest husbanding. Hence it was not surprising that Gamaliel, at chivalric 65, caught himself thinking, as he laid his fifty-second weekly wreath on Cordelia's grave, of other women?...