Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second, the exigencies of college journalism make it almost inevitable that a series of articles upon any subject of outstanding interest shall be written one by one, never supervised, handed in at ten or eleven o'clock of an evening, commented upon by an editorial also written at white heat, and published to the world next morning...
...your information-a cataract is an opacity of the crystalline lens- that powerful and highly transparent little lens within the eye whose function it is to bring rays of light to a focus upon the retina. Due to injury, extreme heat, or any one of a number of causes, this lens may become translucent and eventually opaque. Since all rays of light must pass through the crystalline lens to be received upon the retina, it is easy to see how a loss of transparency results in serious impairment to the vision. Science knows of no way to remove a lenticular...
...less serene disposition than "Willie" Woodin might well have been agitated beyond dissembling by the heat and pressure of that first terrific week at the Treasury. Every bank in the land- 18,000 of them- had been shut tight by Presidential proclamation (TIME, March 13). For practical purposes the U. S. was off the gold standard. The nation's industries were at a standstill. The public pulse was beating a panicky tattoo. The Federal Government was so bowed with accumulated deficits as to threaten national credit. Ahead lay only economic uncertainty. If ever a Secretary of the Treasury started...
...means downhearted or broke, gay Brazilians have just spent an estimated $7,000,000 on their uproarious three-day Mardi Gras Carnival (Feb. 26-28). celebrated amid sizzling, record summer heat by nearly a million merrymakers...
...first day out, Kremlin, pointer owned by Jacob France of Baltimore, found four coveys and three singles in a good heat, then dismayed his handler by pointing two rabbits. Two days later a young pointer named Dr. Blue Willing caused a sensation by getting lost for an hour and a half, after starting his heat with a brilliant find. For the first time in 20 years the brace in the finals belonged to one owner, Andrew G. C. Sage of New York, nephew of the late great Russell Sage. One was Superlette, nine-year-old bitch, who was runner...