Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several correspondents have urged us to make a final appeal to the faculty, or a systematic attack on the janitor, for more heat and less darkness in the chapel. It is, unfortunately, too early to insert our stereotyped editorial on heating the chapel, as there is a rule of the paper which forbids its use oftener than once a month. We, therefore, pass over tre old grievance at this time, and turn to the new complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of the psalms without injury to the eyes...
...from the colonnade into the new office building. President Roosevelt was beaming with happy expectation. So were the 120 members of the "gang," as Louis Howe calls the White House office force. They were delighted to have a wholly air-conditioned building to save them from the summer's heat; delighted with the roomy basement offices extending out under the lawn and surrounding a little sunken court with a fountain in its centre; delighted that in place of the beautiful but useless McKim dome over the old waiting room, their palace had got a roomy penthouse where more secretaries...
...Heat," Professor Saunders, Jefferson Physics Laboratory...
When the electrical contacts are made with a nerve, the result is quite different. A nerve is somewhat analogous to the fuse of a firecracker. When a stimulus comes, it travels up the nerve like the spark in a fuse. Just as the spark gives off light and heat, so the nerve gives off electrical disturbances. By tests of nerve stimuli, it is possible to determine the sensitivity and range...
Last, week officials finished counting New Mexico ballots. Very gingerly they fingered the last few. The election for Senator was nearly a dead heat. All the early returns had shown Democratic Representative Dennis Chavez far in the lead.* Later votes began to pile up for Senator Bronson Cutting, insurgent Republican seeking reelection. With the last ballot officially counted, the vote stood: Cutting, 76,245; Chavez...