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...finest poet seems to be Pavel An-takolski. He recently finished a poem called Son. It is in the ancient style of a scald - as if written by a poet who has marched with troops for the purpose of intoning laments over the dead on the field of battle and calling for revenge. Son is written for Antakolski's own son-warrior, who died for his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Engineers of the Soul | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...like TIME, it sheds no crocodile tears, they scald the eyeballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...begin to die, injured tissues and nerves begin to heal. Profuse sweating weakens the patient. He feels nauseous, vomits, has cramps, twitches. Attendants stop all this by giving the patient plenty of salty water. The sweating causes another inconvenience. The healing radio waves collect in the sweat droplets, scald the patient. General Motors' Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering who bought the radiotherm from General Electric (whose Chemist Willis Rodney Whitney built it after accidental discovery that short radio waves cause fever), figured that a draft of dry, hot air would evaporate the sweat, cool the uncomfortable patient. Mr. Kettering invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physicians in Montreal | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...Press discovered that Mississippi has places named Hot Coffee, Whynot and O. K.; Florida has Sonny Boy, Two Egg, Coon and Sisters Welcome; North Carolina has Hog Quarter, Maiden and Red Bug; Virginia has Ego, All, Swallow Well and Topnot; Arkansas has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Georgia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...burn is caused by dry heat of 140° F. or more, a scald by moist heat of 120° F. or more. Their injuries to flesh are identical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ten Months in an Oven | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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