Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sister science will probably be thrown into the scales. Dangerous in the extreme would be any application of the principle of unity as an educational rule of thumb; nevertheless the acceptance of the tutorial system by one of the two sciences that had been unincluded within it makes the hot light of attention focus the more directly on the lone remaining field of concentration...
...Lord during the last two seasons will undoubtedly cover the initial sack whenever the nine takes to the field. Chase will be at second base while Sullivan, a regular on last year's team, will be called on to fill the part of shortstop, according to present indications. The hot corner position will most probably be held down by Donaghy, another veteran, who is brilliant, though often erratic in his fielding...
...work was written on a hot summer afternoon in 1862 to amuse a couple of little girls. Today in Harvard it is used, along with "Just So Stories," to illustrate philosophy lectures. Quotations from it head the chapter in a textbook of economic theory. The Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat are co-immortal with pious Aeneas and Tom Jones...
...agreed that no matter how free the years might make us to wander, Bakersfield shall be our permanent headquarters. Bakersfield does have high summer temperatures but so has every other spot in this big state not right at the sea coast. Los Angeles, we think, is ''dreadfully hot" in summer, because it is often sultry; Bakersfield has the dry clear air of its neighbor, the Mojave desert...
Fever is one of the first weapons of the body. When an infection sets in, the old organism stokes up the furnace, heats up the blood, sends it racing round in hot haste to destroy the enemy. At one time the best medical practice believed in damping the fire, bringing down the fever. Now the viewpoint changes. Medical men are conjuring up fevers to help them fight widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns...