Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bewildering" (the endless exhibits, the jostling crowds); "disorderly" (the hodge-podge of scientific displays and Coney Island peep-shows); "interesting & instructive" (the industrial exhibits, the historical displays; but, even more so, the naive, gum-chewing, beer-swigging crowds); "wearying" (the 82 miles of exhibits, the hard gravel walks, the heat); "exasperating" (the incessant cries of "'Yeah, Folks!" "Step this way folks." "Hot dawgs, hot dawgs!" "Mister, have you tried our health drink?"); "amusing" (the comments of the crowd); "salacious" (the sideshows of the Midway); "tame and unoriginal'' (the same shows...
Courtship Itch. Dr. William Waddell Duke of Kansas City cited the case of a heat-sensitive swain who feared making love to his sweetheart because every time he caressed her he had an itching attack, and was obliged to scratch. Contrariwise, cold makes certain sensitive individuals restless. Surrogated Dr. Duke: "It's extremely unfortunate if a husband is cold sensitive and his wife heat sensitive. He feels good if he's active, and the same thing makes her feel...
...clock the factory was a smouldering ruin, but four of the nearby houses were still aflame. As they burned themselves out, the total casualties mounted to nine dead, 180 injured. Next day Bergen County officials rejected the theory that the explosion was caused by the heat of the sun, set to work on clues of incendiarism. They questioned Alexander Schein-zeit, owner of the celluloid plant, who said he had had labor troubles and had also been warned by business rivals that he was in for a "bitter fight." Another possible cause for the explosion was a knife-type electric...
...plain man-in-the-pew nor even for the average preacher-in-the-pulpit are Bishop Barnes' thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...
...Silver trumpets blew, all the bells of Rome rang loudly. By ancient ritual the Cardinals offered Pius XI loaves of bread, kegs of wine and water, cages of doves, pigeons, nightingales and other birds. The Holy Father, 76, appeared pale towards the end, but not otherwise affected by muggy heat and four and one-half hours of ceremonial during which many people fainted. At one point a madman jumped on a chair, began haranguing the crowd in a loud voice, was removed by the police...