Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heat is the energy of motion of tiny particles, the vigorous dance of the atoms and molecules that constitute matter. When matter is chilled, the dance becomes torpid. At Absolute Zero ( -273.13 degrees C.) it would cease altogether. Scientists have not attained and do not expect to attain absolute Absolute Zero, but by a laborious process which involves repeated magnetization and demagnetization they have chilled certain salts to .0002 of one degree above Absolute Zero (TIME...
...undergraduates will depart for mountain or urban resorts for a few days, nursing the profound desire never to look a blue book in the face again. But the blue books turned in during the last fortnight represent the distillation of four months of work, plus the soul-searing heat of cramming. Yet in a number of courses the chance to see a blue book after it has been written is altogether denied, or made so hard that the exploratory genius of a Peary is needed to freeze the book out of the files. Clearly it is up to the college...
Communist Paradoxes. In Moscow the official Soviet Foreign Office spokesman told correspondents amiably and without heat that the Stalin Regime has "no objection to Mexico's granting asylum to Trotsky," adding perfunctorily, "so long as Trotsky is not permitted to use Mexico as a base for plotting against the Soviet Union...
...below, battalions of grey light are marching over blackness and lights alike. My wing tips extend over the Atlantic and the Sound. Blanked out by my fuselage is the Island. I must go home. I am getting tired with deep breathing. Turn about to the West. Throttle down. More heat to the carburetor...
Novae, or "new stars," are stars which, because of some unknown unbalance, flare up in a gigantic explosion, throw out hundreds of thousands of times as much heat and light as before, sling off shells of hot gas, subside at last to something like their former status. Close study of a nova during 1935 showed three shells of gas expanding...