Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters perspiring in the Red Sea heat, St. Gandhi explained that only if the weather became exceptionally cold would he modify his famed loincloth in Britain. Then he would wear a woolen loincloth, reaching his ankles, and a white cotton jacket, specially woven for him by big-toed Raymond Duncan, esthete brother of the late great Isadora. ¶ On Sunday the Mahatma attended Christian service in the Rajputana's main saloon. Because it is his favorite hymn his thin reedy voice was heard piping "Lead Kindly Light" amid the enshrouding boom of British baritones...
...Idaho came together, beat back firefighters, bore down on farms, ranches and towns. Two towns were razed as their inhabitants fled to the open country. Many fugitives stayed for hours up to their necks in mountain streams, caught pneumonia. Animals, wild and domestic, were burned to death running. The heat stirred up tornadoes that fanned the flames to fresh heights. Mining camps were leveled, two more towns destroyed. Simultaneously forest fires broke out in Washington, Montana, Wyoming. Colorado, California, spreading the same disaster. Six men were burned to death in Idaho, five in Montana, two in California. The damage...
...operation by the end of the year. Backed by the strong Insull interests together with Texas Corp., Cities Service Co., Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and other big companies, this line is thought to have an auspicious future, especially since the gas will be sold on heat units instead of cubic feet (natural gas has nearly twice as many B. T.U. as manufactured gas). Apparently most sure of its success is Continental Construction Corp., the builder, for last week this concern announced that by the end of 1932 it will build a parallel line with 30-inch pipe, shoot...
...angry, flaying editorial in Parents' Magazine. On orders of Publisher George Joseph Hecht, Editor Clara Savage Littledale berated the promoters: "Have you seen the hundreds of children who wait for hours in the broiling sun dressed in fantastic, uncomfortable costumes in order to march more hours in the heat before thousands of adults who should be more humane than to come to see them? Many of the children are very tiny things, the younger the better because the 'cuter' in the eyes of the judges. Weariness, overexcitement, nerve strain and perhaps contagious disease are deliberately courted...
Beaten regularly this season by Nedda Guy and Keno, it looked as though Calumet Butler would be beaten again when he finished third to Keno and Calumet Belricka in the first heat with Nedda Guy, unaccountably off-form, a slow fifth. Calumet Butler won the next heat and Nedda Guy, who finished second, pulled up lame and was withdrawn. In the last heat, the horses got away smoothly on the first start. McMahon kept Calumet Butler ahead around the first two turns, with Calumet Belricka breaking the wind for Keno behind her. Keno came on just before the last turn...