Word: heating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resemble ancient spinsters masquerading in too youthful garb; his right to the name "progressive" is challenged by a few. It remains indisputable, Lone the less, that he has surpassed his adversaries in poise of mind, in clarity of immediate purposes, and most completely, in preserving his calmness under the heat of debate...
After the preliminary matches, Wellesley and Yale faced each other in the finals, for the championship. Both teams, having already tasted the fruits of cross-word victory, altogether outdid themselves in this contest. Apparently they finished in a dead heat, but the sharp-eyed judges discovered that Wellesley had made a mistake in the last syllable of the last words, so Yale was conceded the victory...
...struck, the gasoline tank burst, and in a moment there was a rush of flames which rose 60 ft. into the air. A fire engine was on the spot in six minutes, but firemen and mechanics with axes could do nothing but watch the flames because of the intense heat. The seven passengers and the pilot must have died instantaneously. Their clothes were gone and their bodies black when disinterred from the wreckage...
...ears. Practically the whole of the Opposition and its press attacked the Premier. At Pre Saint Gervais, where Socialists Millerand and Briand had, 30 years before, harrangued the people, the ''storm troops" of the Communists stood shivering in the cold, warming their souls from the fiery heat of their leader's oratory...
...course, Dr. Jeans did not confine his consideration of relativity to the hypothetical existence or nonexistence of other planetary systems. His other conclusions include: 1) that the universe is slowly expanding; 2) that stars, in giving off heat and light, diminish in mass (weight), that the sun, for example, loses about four million tons of weight a second; 3). that, as a star becomes smaller, its speed increases...