Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the heat turned off in the big plant, the sitters-800 men, 300 women- were reported bundling to keep warm. On the second day the company began turning the heat on & off every few hours. Unperturbed, the sitters produced concertinas, danced, found messengers' roller skates, skated. Games of bridge, poker and pinochle got started. Youngsters got up an amateur hour. "It's a picnic!" they shrilled to friends outside...
Madrid's tallest so-called skyscraper, the 14-story, U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. building, received three of the famed German superincendiary thermite bombs on its roof last week, but after sizzling according to specifications "with a heat greater than that of molten iron," they finally sizzled out without setting fire. Downstairs the tall, sleek president of I. T. & T., Lieut.-Colonel Sosthenes Behn, an acquaintance of absent Alfonso XIII, remained very much present in Madrid, where he has chosen to stay during the whole of Spain's present civil war. Scores of panic-stricken Madrid...
...weeks preceding the election Republicanism reached white heat in the town. Landon Clubs and Constitutional Leagues mushroomed. But the lower elements continued to be low in spite of the best efforts of their neighbors, and, having the jump in population, the Valley caused the town to go for Roosevelt by no uncertain majority...
...Debye has done powerful work on the conduction of electricity by salt solutions, the electrical properties of insulators, the heat capacities of solids, the atomic architecture of molecules. He was one of four men who turned the crystal diffraction grating invented by Max von Laue into a precise instrument which, by combing X-rays through the atomic lattice in the crystal, determines the composition of a mixture as exactly as by chemical analysis. In Pittsburgh last September Chemist Debye pointed out to the American Chemical Society that water has a quasi-crystalline structure, therefore resembles a diamond more closely...
...teams reappeared on the field for the second half, the musicians grouped in the well-known "U" in front of the visitors stands, and started to apply the heat to a syncopated version of Annapolis and Crimson songs. Then second assistant football manager Bolton ran out an tapped Band Leader Irwin meaningly on the arm. Irwin nodded and kept on playing. Next assistant manager Bob Whitman tried his luck. Still the music poured forth. Referee Trimble whispered to Irwin, who nodded. The music continued...