Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Navy got away well and led by half a length in the first quarter-mile with Penn in hot pursuit. Penn drew up to the Blues just past the trolley bridge and Columbia snorted hard about a length behind. Just before the finishing post the Reds (Penn) strained their oars and finished half a length ahead .of the Middies, with Columbia half a length behind them...
...commercial competitors?screaming headlines, comic strips, subscription premiums. By these methods its business managers tried to gain circulation, and they got perhaps 60,000?no mean feat. But it went further in its compromises; it toned down the vigor of its editorials. It was no longer a piping hot radical? it was still a radical, but a mealy-mouthed radical. By this means it hoped to gain advertising. It succeeded in part. Business began to bring some advertising to the Star's pages, but not enough. The grim receiver with scythe and hourglass was waiting around the corner...
According to investigations made by the Pittsburgh Experiment Station of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, a man in a state of rest and in still air cannot endure indefinitely a temperature higher than 90° F. with 100% relative humidity. Stout men subjected to uncomfortably hot temperatures lose more weight than thin men, but, as a rule, can stand high temperatures longer and complain less of exhaustion...
Coolidge-Beveridge ? great hot weather ticket...
Stout men subjected to uncomfortably hot temperatures...