Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ordinarily the big timepiece does not get in much trouble during the year, but occasionally ice and snow stop it at the beginning of winter or else a loosening bolt lets a hand slip out of proper position...
...tinkling of the ice...
...CLAWED - C-L-A-W-E-D ! All wires are clown. The wind is so fast we can't walk against it, autos can't get through, there are no lights and communications. . . . People here don't keep much food on hand and the dairy, milk, ice, meat -all food service is gone. It takes a revealing flash like this to -GET THE HELL OFF THIS LINE! Not you, New York, just a minute...
Shrinking Drinks. To demonstrate how rapidly capillaries react to heat and cold. Dr. Fred Bennett Moor of Los Angeles had a fellow doctor take a drink of ice water while holding his arm immersed in a tank of water. Soon as the cold drink made itself felt in the demonstrator's stomach, water level in the tank fell measurably, thus indicating that the cooled stomach drew blood from the capillaries of the arm. Consequently the capillaries shrank, and the bulk of the arm with them. These changes must have some effect on heart and lungs, argued Dr. Moor, urging...
...great banquet in the railroad station ($7.50 a plate for cantaloupe. Philadelphia pepper pot, fresh salmon. Virginia lamb, ice cream and California wine) was marred by the conspicuous presence of two rows of unoccupied tables. It was enlivened by Secretary Ickes' speech declaring that reducing electric rates was a high duty of government, by Floyd Carlisle's point that utilities, unlike railroads, banks, farmers and many others, had not had to call on the Government for financial aid in Depression...