Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Franklin Delano Roosevelt crossed the continent from West to East, he had to pass through intolerable drought, heat, dust. Last week the uncomfortable feature of his East-to-West journey was the 17th annual convention of the American Legion at St. Louis. At one time the President had tentatively agreed to address the Legionaries. He now had changed his mind. So he arranged his itinerary with formal speaking stops only at Boulder Dam and the San Diego Exposition, after which he planned to go home by way of the Panama Canal on a cruiser. To put the best face...
...fire-pit. His moccasins were not singed. In Manhattan last week Joseph Dunninger of the Universal Council for Psychic Research said that fire-walking may be made comfortable by lighting the blaze first along the centre line of the pit; by the time the edges have reached maximum heat, the centre line, along which the performer walks, has begun to cool. In an expose of Oriental magic, Professional Magician John Mulholland declared that the trick is done either by stepping on fast-cooling lava fragments or by applying "heat-resisting chemicals" to the soles. Some primitives who specialize in firewalking...
...Carshalton, Surrey, workmen last week laid a ton of firewood and over that a wagonload of burnt oak and charcoal. This pyre was drenched with ten gallons of kerosene and ignited. When it had burned for eight hours and a wind had fanned the embers almost to white heat a scrawny young Hindu named Kuda Bux and a group of respectable-looking Britons appeared. Kuda Bux had promised that by faith he would walk barefooted across the glowing...
...Securities Exchange Commissioner, declared soon after his appointment that he was completely in accord with his predecessor, Mr. Kennedy, and would seek to continue the fair dealing, temperate direction which had characterized the Commission before his accession. Undoubtedly Mr. Landis is sincere. Way back in October, 1933, in the heat of the controversy over the Securities Exchange Bill, he addressed a meeting of Public Accountants in New York, and described the qualities of a good Commissioner. They will be the qualities exemplified by Mr. Landis. Under such able administrators the Commission will continue a great success...
Legitimate doctors are just beginning to understand the multitude of effects that physical agents-machines, baths, heat, electricity, exercises-have on human beings. According to Dr. Nagelschmidt, "Physical therapy has left the field of empiricism and has entered the scientific realm.'' On the other hand virtually anyone can learn to manipulate virtually any physiotherapeutic device in a few hours. One of the best schools for the training of such technicians, the New Haven School of Physical Therapy, headed by an M. D., requires only a high-school diploma of students. They pursue their training course in twelve months...