Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which can function at 147°, and animals, with a system of maintaining body temperatures at normal regardless of climate, pursued their ordinary activities, as did the men, women and children of El Centro. Women dressed in organdie; men went without coats. Everyone wore hats to prevent sunstroke. But of heat stroke there was no fear. For the air at El Centro is exceedingly dry. It instantly absorbs perspiration and with perspiration the heat of any man's exertion. Only complaints were from tourists, not properly dressed for quick evaporation of body moisture...
...feelings. Pedagogs patted their palms as Secretary Robert C. Moore of the Illinois State Teachers Association blurted out their grievance: "Our meek attitude and mild resolutions must cease. It is all too clear that we have little recognition as a power. We determined to come to Washington in the heat, thinking it probable that the President of the United States would like to address us. We have sweated and we have sweltered but not one single personal or official word has come from...
...Idaho announced that investigators for the Munitions Committee were discovering ''shocking" evidence, which would come out when its public hearings start in September. Representative Dickstein's Nazi hunt and Senator Black's year-old investigation of ocean and air mails were simmering at summer heat. All told, the 3rd Congress had promised its members 23 investigations and provided $655,500 to last until January. Inquisitions afoot...
Fancy Hole. President Carl Ewald Grunsky of the California Academy of Science died last week just before he was to suggest that, if all mankind cooperated, they might dig a hole through the 200 miles of earth's crust and tap tremendous heat and gas imprisoned under 900,000 Ib. pressure per square inch...
...Heat & Cold. Dissipation of body heat through the skin pores of itself may produce a common cold, declared William John Kerr and John B. Lagen of the University of California. They agree with other investigators that the environment in which a person happens to be and the way he reacts to that environment are more significant than the germs which enter his system. Also attributable to environment, said the investigators, may be an attack of pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, even pneumonia...