Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many travelers they were ill-prepared for the worst. The worst was not piranhas (carnivorous fish), tarantulas, snakes, jaguars or hostile savages, but lack of water, of food. The stifling, steamy heat was bad but endurable; but once swarms of ihenni flies kept them sleepless for 90 hours. Their mules, exhausted by travel, were nearly finished off by vampire bats. One time Duguid, night-enveloped, riding the trail alone, was halted by two blazing eyes. He was sure it was a jaguar, but Siemel convinced him afterwards it must have been a couple of fireflies; no land animal...
...When the heat reduces the Will to Live to a minimum, and the press of exams makes life appear a dreary farce, immediate and sure relief may be had by spending a couple of hours at the Metropolitan...
...Vagabond emerged from the drain pipe of the new unit of Adams House where he had been avoiding the heat and looked over the gutter onto Plympton Street late one evening during this examination period, he looked around to see how hard the students of this great University were taking themselves and their studies. The net result was most gratifying. Activity was everywhere. Bottles were crashing into the street, "Ten Cents a Dance" was being sung from a room in Randolph in a voice which betokened the existence of something more substantial than the mere joy of existence, while...
...race as long as this; leaded or etherized gas has speed but lacks power, and Woodworth needed power to make the light boat carry his 200 Ib. No use fooling with imported spark plugs; good though they are for sprints, they seldom last more than one heat. Everything depended on the balance between the Miss Northwestern and her capital Evinrude motor; the way the gas tanks and extra feed lines were placed...
...year-old Monrovia, Calif, out-boarder, competed against the best professional drivers in Europe for the PFN cup, put up by the Fascist Party in a meet organized by Poet-Out boarder Gabriele d'Annunzio. She drove her Sunkist Kid V across the line first in the first heat, second in the next after fixing her motor which had faltered at the start, won the cup on her average time...