Search Details

Word: hotter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...good as carbolic acid, iodine, mercurochrome or new-fangled synthesized chemicals in killing infectious germs. Soap will not kill staphylococci or typhoid bacilli, which are unusually resistant to germicides. But soap will kill pneumococci, meningococci, streptococci, gonococci. diphtheria bacilli, influenza bacilli and Spirochaeta pallida very easily, very quickly. The hotter the water the better the killing properties of the soap. One kind of soap is virtually as efficacious as another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Soap v. Germs | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Great Britain, where the Labor Party is Socialist in platform and doctrine, Socialist Ramsay MacDonald was urged by his hotter-headed Clydeside followers to flay the Encyclical. But he kept his tem per, mildly said: "I shall wait for an interpretation by some Catholic dignitary in this country." Not until last week did the interpretation come, from Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Westminster's Word | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Although new as an explanation of sunspots, the theory that stars are hotter at their poles is well known among astronomers. It was first stated in 1923 by Dr. Edward Arthur Milne, Oxford astrophysicist. Dr. Edward Hugo von Zeipel, astronomer of Sweden's University of Uppsala, and Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, famed astronomer of Cambridge University, have both worked on the theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Solar Poles? | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...opinion of Briton Brailsford, "cold English brains" devised the system whereby bands of native police, especially in the rural districts, set upon individual Indian men & women and beat them. "The execution [of this plan] was left to hotter heads and rougher hands," notably to Mohuntal Shah, chief Indian official of the Borsad Taluka in Kaira District, who, Mr. Brailsford reports, has not only presided at numerous pouncings and beatings, but also "occasionally assisted with a heavy walking stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of the Year, 1930 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...protest from bilked investors it was loudly charged that Raoul Peret, Minister of Justice, had been receiving secret sums from the Oustric bank. Prime Minister Tardieu defended his minister in the Chamber, was booted out of power by the Senate (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week the Oustric case grew hotter & hotter. Clement Moret, governor of the Bank of France, testified that in 1926 as an official in the Ministry of Finance he had published a favorable report on one Oustric stock, an Italian artificial silk company known as Snia Viscosa, at the direct order of M. Peret, then Finance Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Further Oustric | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Previous | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | Next