Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ajax Electrothermic Corp.'s furnace capable of producing a steady heat...
...rubber race between Frank Wykoff of Southern California, intercollegiate champion in 1931, joint holder of the world's record (9.5 sec.) and Bob Kiesel, University of California sophomore, who lost one race to Wykoff this year, then beat him in the California Intercollegiates. Wykoff won both his heats with nonchalance, looking backwards for the last 30 yards. Kiesel, who had said he would not compete for a place on this year's Olympic team because he is tired of running, took his first heat but in the semi-final when he came galloping down the track with...
...Latin master at Lawrenceville last week glanced over a paper, chuckled, went off to play golf. . . . Heat shimmered over a brick high school in Mobile, Ala. A proctor in academic gown looked bored, listened to the scratching of a couple of pens. . . . Perspiring Hill students finished a tennis match, trooped with a hundred others into a hall where they settled themselves noisily. ... In Paris a lonely student racked his brain, gazed vacantly from the Salle des Conferences in the American University Union at scuttling trotteurs and lazy cafe-sitters in the Boulevard St. Germain. ... In Ojai, Calif., a student hurried...
...Spitsbergen on the Island of St. John in the Virgin Islands and in a southern Alabama hill town. In each community the inhabitants were free of colds until strangers arrived. The experience of Spitsbergen where men mine coal all year round was sharply defined. From November when the last heat departed until the day after the first boat arrived the next spring no miner had a cold, although they lived in hot, stuffy barracks, went out into blustery cold every morning, picked coal at temperatures below freezing and returned tired each evening to their steaming quarters. Their healthiness suggested that...
...Gibbons, who also spoke over NBC, found nothing important happening. Wrote he: "Hello everybody! Chicago looks like it might be going to a picnic. And Chicago ought to be picnic enough for anybody. Why, you can take a taxi and in a few minutes you're out of the heat and crowds of the Loop. Out passing green trees, beautiful parks, smooth drives? right out to the Edgewater Beach Hotel...