Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the negotiators tried to twist words into phrases that could cover such antithetical views, the Japanese Army made things hotter for the British in China by organizing "spontaneous" hostile demonstrations. Neither the Japanese Government, which is afraid of losing its remaining power to Army extremists, nor the British, who are playing for time, wanted to break off the Tokyo conversations. Finally Sir Robert and Foreign Minister Arita agreed to a vague compromise formula: "His Majesty's Government . . . recognize the actual situation in China, where hostilities on a large scale are in progress. . . . The Japanese forces in China have...
...Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, during a brief excursion into entomology many years ago, discovered that the hotter an ant was, the faster it ran-in fact, that you could tell the temperature of an ant by its rate of movement...
...mighty pile of legislative lumber remained last week to be sawed by Congress before adjournment. But controversies between men at opposite ends of the saw grew hotter with the weather instead of abating...
...mother, a resident of San Francisco's Beach Street: "Joe no say a thing to me. No talk of this love business." Said Miss Arnold: "We sort of started to go around together and the first thing we knew-or at least that I knew-it was getting hotter." The announcement was hardly out when Centre Fielder Di Maggio, chasing a fly ball, hurt his ankle, was expected to be out of action for ten days...
This put another famed market counselor, Robert Rhea, on a far hotter spot than Major Angas. Robert Rhea is the oracle of the Dow Theory, which has more adherents than any other market-forecasting system. In his March 25 letter to clients, Robert Rhea declared that joint penetration of their previous lows by the industrial and railroad averages would mean that the primary market trend had changed from bull to bear, even though the bull market which began last spring has not enjoyed either normal length or the usual hectic "third phase." Robert Rhea unhappily admitted his dilemma and critics...