Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shuffled them together and lifted them out of the box. Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk. Then he began to read slowly, the words his great-great-grandfather had written so long ago. Corsica, land of hot skies and almost savage peasants, lifted its little mountains on the moors beyond the window. Famous and courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder of the reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating journey from left to right over...
...been made.- Last week in Osawatomie, U. S. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri made a speech on which he informally opened his campaign for the Democratic-Presidential nomination. Under a blue and windy sky the farmers who had come to town for the annual Farmers' Union munched hot dogs or cones and stood on their feet with their hands in their pockets. Their wives, many with yowling babies in arm, soon strolled away from the platform. The voice of Mr. Reed sounded incongruously vehement in the placid, warm afternoon, but the farmers and press correspondents (who were sitting...
...Fireman's Band began to play in the afternoon. Old soldiers straddled the backs of their chairs, waved flasks or sandwiches in time to the music, told one another of brave things done long-ago. As the tinny jangle of "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" stopped suddenly on a loud note, there was a great roaring of competitive anecdotes. Bellowed one bottle-nosed sport, ". . . And boy, I almost brought her home and married her. Yes, and by God if the damn kid didn't get himself shot over in France, after...
...heat 31 million times as great as all the heat stored in the world's aggregate coal deposits. A 30-mile bore, one foot in diameter, could obviously not be dug by human labor. But an eroding alloy of aluminum would do it, melted by electricity, circulated by hot air at a pressure of more than 250,000 Ibs. to the square inch. That is about the pressure of the earth's rocky crust 30 miles down, a pressure under which the friction of rock layers sliding on one another generates at least 1,600° Fahr. Such...
Unlike most who have made this covenant with God, Robert J. White, Massachusetts district attorney, remembered it after he recovered from an operation last year. With the dark hysteria of fever forgotten, he still could sense the hot languor of his sickroom, he still could feel the curious animation which had come when he handled the holy relic a priest had brought him. Yet he hesitated to fulfill his obligation until, when his mother died, he felt that God was frowning at him for forgetting a miracle...