Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped that TIME'S "vocabulary-builders'' will be able to maintain their flair for vivid and witty epithets even during the summer's heat and humidity. Their characterization of members of the Civilization Conservation Corps, recruited from the unemployed, as "workers-in-the woods" (issue of June 19) is a bit flat...
...Financial Times, stood resolved last week to hold aloof from the Morgenthau wheat pact, thus rendering it unfeasible, but her dynamic Resident Minister in London, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier, kept pestering Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons daily with long, urgent dispatches at 40? per word. Meantime as dry heat seared a U. S. crop already short, wheat soared 13? a bushel for the week. Texas wheat...
...taste, smell, touch. He examined the brains of beasts and men and concluded, he said in Chicago last week, that for every kind of outside impulse to which man is sensitive there is a particular, infinitesimal cell in his brain. We do not see ultraviolet light or feel infrared heat simply because we have no brain cells to receive those impressions. The impressions which do stimulate our brain affect it by pulsating radiations along distinct nerve cells. Thus "all our sensations rest upon the circulation of electric discharges in cells which stimulate each other" and all we know about existence...
...central Illinois flats. Tilling the soil on large farms, its rugged members have always opposed modern machinery on theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would go tractors and drivers again...
...consumes 80 watts of electricity, but because it produces so much more light than the ordinary lamp of that wattage, its sponsors claim that it is not only more efficient but, once installed, is more economical. Chief problems have been that sodium attacks ordinary glass and that the intense heat of the light destroys the bulb. These flaws have been corrected by the development of a special glass for the bulb. Heat developed in the lamp and necessary for its operation is maintained by an evacuated double-walled glass jacket (like a thermos bottle) placed around the bulb...