Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan State two other relay titles each. Four men had distinguished themselves as heroes of the meet. University of Michigan's famed Negro Willis Ward, star footballer and his college's most versatile track athlete, won the 110-metre high hurdles, pulled a muscle in his heat of the 100-metre dash, which forced him to withdraw from that event and merely tie for third place in the high jump. Jack Torrance, gigantic (311-lb.) alumnus of Huey Long's university (L. S. U.), shot-putter by day and Baton Rouge policeman by night, posed...
...ginger ale labels, from candy box covers to containers for permanent wave pads. Lately Reynolds has added building materials, and it is in that division that the company is presumably about to expand. Chief building product is aluminum foil insulation, which because of its shiny finish minimizes transfer of heat by radiation. Most building insulation simply reduces heat transfer through conduction and convection. Another important Reynolds building product is an ingenious prefabricated lathing, sold with or without a foil backing...
...greenhouse, 19 x 8 ft., has insulating walls consisting of two iron sheets with the 6-in. space between them filled by tightly packed sawdust. Only the south side of its roof is of glass. Heat & light are provided by ten 500-watt lamps which hang close over the plants in double rows and can be raised as the plants grow higher. A thermostat turns on the lights if the temperature drops below 62°, turns them off at 68°. Even a little sunshine keeps the insulated structure warm enough to keep the lights off. On the average...
Ancient is the topical application of heat for medicinal purposes-Hippocrates' hot douche, hot baths, poultices, hot water bottles. The physiological basis for the body-heating vogue is the recently recognized fact that fever is the result of the body's effort to destroy disease. Hence fever should be judiciously encouraged and seldom, but never hysterically, fought. In 1917 Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna, experimenting with artificial fevers induced by deliberately infecting patients with malaria, found that such artificial fevers brought about improvement and occasionally cures in the cases of people whose brains had been softened...
...side of the soft palate. Each tube contains a partition which allows a steady flow of hot water. Sinus pains speedily cease as the water circulates. With another kind of Elliott rubber bag, Drs. John Henry Morrissey and Leo L. Michel of Manhattan, and a thousand others, are heat-treating abscesses of the teeth, inflammation of the gums, post-extraction pains and blockade of the parotid glands...