Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first land, Thores, the western-most of the Azores, 2200 miles from Newport, was sighted by our tiny vessel in 17 days. On the whole the weather was good, but one bad gulf gale spell was responsible for our going without hot food for four days. We relied almost wholly upon the wind to move our ship, although it was equipped with a small two-cylinder engine, for emergency in calms...
...detects differences of a hundred-millionth of a degree of heat. That is not enough, say the astronomers. It must be sharpened to a thousand-millionth, and many fainter stars of every type must be examined. Most of these big stars are found to be at least twice as hot as the sun. The present findings are so far significant, at least, that they increase our knowledge of the physical nature of the stars...
...illustration given me by a man who ran for mayor in one of the great cities of the country a few years ago. A better man has seldom been nominated anywhere, nor one with higher purposes, greater sincerity, or a finer sense of public service. The fight was a hot one and concededly close. He had for weeks been going about the city speaking nightly in five or six different places. One night about 10 o'clock he found himself in a small hall in which there were about 300 persons. It was not until he reached the meeting that...
Roger had had his own troubles. In boyhood, Plainsburg ? a hot, dead, little country town. Later, Herald College where he had had a prize scholarship, and which he found as vapid as Janet, on the whole, found her college. Adventures with girls, an attempt at treading the primrose path (abandoned when he discovered those well advertised flowers a little too stale for enjoyment), a search for the beauty and truth of life in odd exploits that led, apparently, nowhere; Sally the beautiful, and their engagement, broken, mended, broken; Sally, the unlucky, crushed pitilessly by circumstance she was not steely...
Charles William Eliot's slight volume, Harvard Memories, has issued from the Cambridge presses in crimson covers. It is a family book in which the venerable chief-emeritus of Harvard talks to great-grandsons concerning the days-before-football. In those days "students had no hot water. But all the dormitories now have running water, and you can hardly imagine how great an improvement that has made in the manners and customs of Harvard students...