Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While hot, hissing celluloid flames cut off the only door, the barn, tinder-dry, kindled with a roar. Forty-nine persons were burned to death in this, the worst cinema-theatre fire in the history of the British Isles...
Synthetic Italy. There was Prince Piero Ginori Conti of Italy, who described the taming of waterfalls and hot volcanic springs in the Apennines to produce the power to make the electricity that now supplies Italy with acetic acid without apples (vinegar); wood alcohol from coal instead of trees; camphor, ammonia, formaldehyde, artificial silk for black shirts, from their chemical constituents...
...their simplicity of structure and absence of vibration. Instead of a carburetor and valves, a Diesel* motor has a small spray to inject fuel into the cylinder at the moment when the piston has risen and greatly compressed the air in the chamber. Compression makes the air so hot that ignition is automatic and the explosion gradual and more powerful than the complex explosion obtained with a spark plug. No generator or distributor is needed by a Diesel; no pressure oiling system. The Diesel's fuel is crude oil-almost any oil will do. The Foos engineers maintained that...
...Main Street," "The Note Book in the Gate-Legged Table," "The Rosebud Wall-Paper," "The Real Estate Agent's Tale." The title of the collection came, perhaps, out of Amy Lowell's love for a fresh breeze off the ocean, bringing rain to dry New England in hot summer. It might stand for herself, who blew with sharp zest through lives and times notoriously parched...
...rowboat. Later they were married, and now have two children. Last week it was Clemington Corson who rowed a dory across the English Channel in the van of his wife, who chatted with her in grey hours of the early morn ing, who fed her two pints of hot chocolate, four lumps of sugar, six crackers. He heard cheerleader Louis Timson's booming bass notes canter over the waves: "Oh, Millie! Oh, Millie! How you can swim!" He saw his wife almost go under in the backwash of the Amsterdam steamer Ulysses; he saw a gleam ing porpoise turn...