Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout Ireland, where an impression has grown that the Holy Father this winter is on increasingly thin geographical ice, the Fianna Fail (Government Party) Convention was besought last week in Dublin to offer "sanctuary in Ireland" to Pius XI. Cried the sponsor of this proposal, Cork City Delegate Eoin O'Mahoney, "I believe that as a result of sanctions Italy will be smashed, and if Mussolini goes the Holy Father will have...
...California, found Glenn Boldan, 14, who had run away from his home in Motley, Minn. Half-frozen, exhausted and starving, Glenn Boldan had survived by chewing on his shoetops, his cap and the seeds of several cotton bolls he had bought for souvenirs in California, by sucking on ice he pulled through a chink in the refrigerator...
...telling what will happen. This mysterious note which found its way to the Crime is more or less self-explanatory. Whether or not the river was actually swum on that cold Friday night is a question left for future researchers. At any rate, there were signs of cracked ice along the partially frozen Charles Saturday morning...
...some of the contraction of a substance is due to a shrinkage of the atoms themselves. The complex atom of cesium shrinks most of all metals. Of 48 metals under high pressure, 39 become better conductors of electricity. 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...
...training and experience, be ready for the radio or stage within a year or so. At present, and with the exception of the man who sounded more like a hen laying an egg than the hen herself, they all left this review as cold as four dollars' worth of ice...