Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have discovered in the reading lists and lectures a chance to renew acquaintances with long abandoned intellectual hobbies, and the news of modern educational trends has served to clear up their ordinarily muddled opinions on that subject. From his own point of view, the alumnus has found much profit oven in the limited activities at his command...
...Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them so the cake will not be wasted. All kitchen appliances, freezing devices, mechanical cleaners etc. etc. he tries to keep in operation eight hours a day, feels cheated if they finish their...
...city employe, recovered consciousness last year, he found that the motor car in which he was going fishing had overturned, exploded, burned two companions to death, seared his back and legs. Piped he: "I'm not a dead soldier." Doctors placed him face downward in a sheet steel oven kept at 103° F. to keep his raw back from chilling (TIME, March 28). Where the seared flesh cleared up, doctors grafted skin. Last week indomitable Jack Doty sat on his front porch, virtually healed, after 412 days in the oven...
...news that after 10½ months on his stomach in an electric oven Luby J. Doty, 27, of Memphis, was still alive last week. He had burned his back and legs in a motor car accident. As everyone knows, when one-third or more of a person's body surface is injured by burn or scald,* almost invariably that person dies. Luby J. Doty may be an exception. He had survived the dangerous burns...
...great areas of his body are denuded of the skin and other agencies which help regulate body temperature. A cool breeze chills him. Hence his oven, a hood of sheet steel over his bed. Four big electric bulbs keep him comfortable at 103° F. His head, shoulders and arms are outside his hot box. Thus he can read, play cards, shake hands with visitors. His doctors hope to graft skin on him some day. Last week he cheered himself & his family thus: "They told me a guy is a dead soldier if more than one-third of his body...