Word: heating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came a call for the 10,000-metre cross-country grind. The sweltering crowd roared greeting to the 39 who pawed the mark, then settled back to wonder how the 39 could possibly endure such searing heat. Out of the Stadium went the runners, to dusty roads, to sunbaked fields. Half an hour later Nurmi's lithe effortless figure came through the Marathon Gate, followed shortly by the indefatigable Ritola and by Earl Johnson (stalwart U. S. Negro), by a sun-stricken, staggering, vomiting, fainting rabble. Only 15 of the 39 finished. Just outside the Stadium many lay prostrate...
...Only one watt in a 100-watt lamp actually illuminates," the inventor explained, "the others merely give off heat." Yet it is possible, he believes, to build a 10,000-candle-power lamp that will give off no heat at all. Such a"frozen light" could be used cheaply to project cinemas...
...England, J. Beresford, Jr., slid his slender shell under the bridge, rested on his sculls in comfort, reflected joyfully that, as in 1920, he had won the Diamond Sculls. In 1922, Beresford was nosed out by Walter M. Hoover of Duluth. Last year, he did not reach the final heat. This year, the man laboring after him was K. N. Craig, of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In the eight's final for the Grand Challenge Cup, six feet separated the victorious bow of the Leander shell from a boatful of "Tabbies" (Jesus College, Cambridge). On the stroke thwart...
...half days the roll call was over. Sixteen candidates had had themselves nominated. McAdoo had been seconded eleven times, Smith seven times, Underwood and Glass twice each, Silzer, Ritchie. John W. Davis and Brown once each. Two and half days had been worn away in oratory and Fahrenheit heat, interspersed with soul-exhausting demonstrations of as much enthusiasm as was thought to be politically effective. Yet an end had been achieved?not the nomination, for a man may be balloted for, who has not been nominated?but a proper psychological state had been created. The delegates had been worn down...
...stop alleged illegal procedure. The case was brought in regard to the "cracking" process for petroleum. In refining crude oil, gasoline is taken off by distillation. But on account of the great demand for gasoline, more of it is obtained by subjecting the residue of heavier oil to heat and pressure. Under this pressure, some of the heavier oil "cracks;" that is, breaks up into lighter, more volatile gasoline. The general idea of this process was invented more than 60 years ago. The patents on it have expired. The Government charges that the only patents still extant are trivial...