Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago Dr. Shapley momentarily put aside his celestial preoccupations to study the ant, discovered that the hotter an ant was the faster it would run, still keeps a bottle of ants on his desk at Harvard Observatory (TIME, July 29). All this the introducer recalled just as he was beginning to grope uncomfortably for something more to say. Dr. Shapley came to his rescue, began to talk glibly and learnedly about ants. Said he: "When you go out of your way to step on an ant, you insult the order of Nature, for you, a mere social upstart...
...tight-lipped listener was Mrs. Aimé, well-loved sister of WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Last week, explaining that Mrs. Meyer's speech had already caused Brother Harry some embarrassment in the form of crank letters and might cause him more as the political campaign grew hotter, Sister Adah resigned her new job as National Youth Administration director for three New York counties, declared : "It is too bad my work in the district has not been allowed to stand or fall on its merits. The leading social workers of the county . . . urged my appointment and induced me to accept...
...Iron grows softer, glass harder. Squeezed water turns solid (''ice") in five different forms, one of which does not melt until heated to nearly 212°F. Under the increased pressures announced last week, two more kinds of ice are formed, one of which can be made hotter than boiling water without melting. Professor Bridgman reasoned that even more fundamental changes might occur in his materials if he could squeeze and twist them at the same time. Therefore instead of letting the vertically opposed cylinders (1¼ in. in diameter) compress the substance directly, he inserted between them...
...surface temperature of the sun is measurable by spectroscopic analysis. Into the much hotter centre, only physical theory can penetrate. The theory must answer two questions: 1) What temperature corresponds to the enormous pressure of pure radiation, exerted from inside, that keeps the sun distended in a stable shape, prevents it from collapsing by gravitational force? 2) What temperature is necessary for the continuous release of atomic energy, that is, consumption of matter as the raw material of radiation? Sir Arthur Eddington believes an internal temperature of 20,000,000° C. is enough. Sir James Jeans thinks it must...
...evening, taking Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West, and two of his female secretaries, Franklin Roosevelt motored out into the Maryland countryside for a picnic supper. For the still hotter weekend, he took Senator and Mrs. Wheeler, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Johnson aboard the Sequoia to fish on the lower Rappahannock...