Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cancers occur only in the susceptible animals. Lately she has been working on mice fed diets comparable to the varied diets of human beings to see if she can increase the incidence of intestinal tumors. If so, she hopes to prove that some elements of human diet, such as heat, alcohol and condiments (never present in animal diets), are external hazards which cause cancer in susceptible humans. She says cancer can be bred out of humans in two generations. Two individuals, both of them entirely resistant to cancer, will breed children also free from cancer. An individual susceptible...
...picture shows of which Corporal G. F. Baker speaks in his letter "Raw Deal" (TIME, June 26), but ours doesn't. It is true, however, that our laundry is done at no cost to us. Any time we're free to we can borrow a bucket, heat some water in it over an open fire, and wash our clothes...
...climbed into his old Rolls-Royce roadster and drove into town for a night's work, beginning with an editorial conference, where everyone talked about the weather. Next day the Tribune's biggest news story of the day swung down from an eight-column streamer: 100.1° HEAT IS JUNE RECORD But a much more important story stood in the editorial page, in a leader written to Publisher McCormick's order by one of his crack editorial writers, Tiffany Blake. Excerpts: ". . . The Tribune proposes ... to air condition the Tribune Tower. The improvement at this stage is complicated...
...there is something in the air that will not let him sleep. There are voices high and low. They seem to swim up through the shimmering heat like the sounds of a diver talking through a sea of molasses. How stupid all this was! Just last night, or was it last night? he had been dancing with the most beautiful women in all the world. Their faces still floated around him, and he could remember the faint scent of sachet. A Junior Usher can muscle in on almost everything. They had spoken to him like dream women wrapping...
...time also depends upon our sensory experience, added Professor Pieron while he was on the subject. Each individual has an organic rhythm which can be altered. Seconds become shorter for us when we have a fever, and conversely the days grow longer. An experiment on trained bees confirmed this heat-altered idea of time. The bees were trained to get their food at a particular time and place. The hotter the bees became the earlier they appeared for meals...