Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German destroyers in 1917. Three times since the War he has been given medals for saving life at sea. He has been C.-in-C. of the Australian Navy and has written a number of healthy adventure stories for boys. What took this most gallant officer to the blazing heat of Bechuanaland was the disgraceful conduct of a lecherous Scotsman known as Phineas Mackintosh...
...curious supplies-eight watches, two colored kites, fishing tackle, a stomach pump to draw liquids from six vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren and water-squirter to wake up the pilot if he dozed. He was going to sit over the oil tank, so that the uncomfortable heat would keep him awake. As he yelled good-by a fanatical gleam...
...unlike the newspapers of any other month. In August the temperature rises higher than the melting-point of even hard-headed city editors, and almost anything may happen. The reader, too, contributes to the confusion. Some newspaper headlines are hard to decipher in mid-January, but the haze of heat distorts even those which make sense. For instance, when the Drifter read in the Herald Tribune on August 14 that "Hull's Kin Visits His Frigate," it was quite natural, in view of the recent unpleasantness at London, that he should think of Cordell. What was his amazement, then...
...second heat Mary Reynolds confidently got away in the lead. At the first turn, trotting in the clear by a length, she suddenly saw the shadow of the rail across the inside of the track. When she broke nervously into a gallop and was taken to the outside, the leaders rushed past her. Driver Ben White got her back into stride, then set out after the, field, caught it on the second stretch. Tired by a blistering quarter-mile after her break, Mary Reynolds led Brown Berry to the last turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck...
...crowd did not know what to expect in the third heat, with both Mary and Brown Berry still quivering from the terrific second. All eleven horses (one had been withdrawn) were subdued, got away evenly at the first score. For a half-mile they ran in the order they had finished in the second. Then Mary fell back to third where she stayed until the last turn...