Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aquaticus, are popular with members of the University was conclusively proved by figures revealed yesterday by B. S. Ulen, swimming coach. "The average attendance," Ulen said, "for the past four days has been 370, with the greatest numbers coming between 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock. Yesterday the heat swelled the daily number to 450. If the pool becomes too crowded we may be reluctantly forced to require men to sign up, as is done for squash; but we will avoid this if possible. I advise all men intending to sign for lockers to do so immediately, as those...
...Vagabond's cool and rather quiet summer spent in the fastness of a Greenland valley has come to an abrupt close. Cambridge with its heat, dust and Tercentenary-isms, he must admit, is rather an abrupt change from the invigorating freshness of the Arctic summer. But it seems that the season for vagabonding has begun once again, so the pleasures of a past summer will have to join the shows of yesteryear and the present situation dispatched as efficiently as possible...
Weather Forecast. The amount of heat given off by the sun varies from day to day. For 30 years, declared Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, members of the Institution have studied these variations in sun radiations in relation to the earth's temperature. For the last six years measurements made at Washington and other stations showed a definite temperature movement up or down whenever solar radiation increased or decreased. With a change in solar radiation of only .8%, temperature was affected as much as 5° F. This effect must be indirect, must operate through...
With a Scottish peer and a confectioner to accompany him*, that wiliest of Welshmen, David Lloyd George, went to No. 10 Downing Street last week to talk Unemployment with Prime Minister MacDonald and his ministers. Britons soon had rumors aplenty to take their minds off the blistering "American heat...
...Wood, famed speedboat builder and pilot: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy race at Detroit with Miss America IX at an average speed of 77.1 m. p. h. more than 2 m. p. h. slower than his time last year. His brother George Wood driving Miss America VIII finished ahead of their only challenger, Miss Marion Barbara Carstairs of England, whose Estelle IV and Estelle V she had been tuning up in the U. S. for two months...