Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treaty. Nonetheless, in October liberal William Lyon Mackenzie King, campaigning before the Canadian general election, promised if he became Prime Minister to negotiate a trade treaty* with the U. S. within 90 days. Only fortnight ago Prime Minister King went to Washington to see Franklin Roosevelt and in the heat of their mutually impetuous goodwill the treaty was incubated. Last week, only seven days after Mr. King had first nested in a White House bed, only ten days after conversations had been opened between the experts of the two Administrations, the treaty, engrossed and ready for signing...
With Freshmen doomed to the colonnade and several hundred undergraduates seated in the steel stands for the Yale game Saturday afternoon, indignation at the Athletic Association is reaching fever heat...
...Jerome Shankey, rival Democrat. Consequently Brother Tom faced not only a Republican opponent but also "Vic" Shankey running as an independent. On election day Brother Jim Farley lent assistance on the spot. As he went from polling place to polling place, mopping his bald dome in the unseasonable November heat, telegrams dated New York City and signed with his name were being delivered to worthy Haverstraw Democrats even as he shook hands with them. Brother Jim was "particularly anxious" to see the local Democratic candidate for the State Assembly elected. "All reports from Rockland County," said Boss Farley...
Imaginative scientists have cold-bloodedly figured out a number of ways in which the world may come to an end. One of the remotest is thermodynamic equilibrium ("heat-death") of the whole universe. Another which may be only a few billion years off is freezing due to solar exhaustion. One which might happen any day is incineration of Earth by the sun's blowing up as a nova or "new star." Last week in London a less familiar world-finish was suggested before the Royal Institution by Sir James Hopwood Jeans, whose popular appeal derives in large part from...
...captivating, as erratic as he was able. He was first a Loyalist spy in the Colonies, then Under-Secretary of State in England, Minister of War in the court of Bavaria, founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the generally accredited discover of the theory that heat is a form of motion. He laid out the Englische Garten in Munich; he was offered the first command of the United States Military Academy by President John Adams (his work as a spy never having been known until recently); he conducted investigations and wrote tracts on foodstuffs, cookery, and heating...