Word: simmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thorpe Club members, who will argue for the appellants, are George I. Meisel, and Paul N. Temple, Lawrence C. Dargan, Jr., Robert Krones, Saul G. Marias, and Charles H. Oldfather, Jr., have written the brief. The Taney Club will represent the appellees. Leonard K. Simmer has written the brief, and Robert W. Culbert and James F. Lovett will argue...
...plays (TIME, Dec. 9), The Age of Reason is an attempt to translate philosophy into fiction. The Age of Reason is the first volume of a trilogy which will chart the salvation of contemporary man. In this first installment, however, nobody is saved; the characters are condemned, instead, to simmer in their own existentialist juices-a form of Sartrian purgatory from which they all will presumably be able to free themselves in the other two books...
...would be far better (and cheaper) to get electricity direct. How? Piles give their energy in a snarl of assorted forms: zig-zagging neutrons, high-speed beta particles, heat, light, gamma rays. Confined within the pile's thick shield, they all simmer down to heat, the most "degraded" form of energy. It takes the costly boiler-turbine-generator combination to "elevate" the heat into usable electricity...
...written on April Fool's Day), Lincoln appears to have begun the affair at a full, rolling boil-declaring that he would "catch, tie and marry" the lady. She was 30, he 29 and a member of the Illinois legislature. For about 18 months he continued at a simmer-traipsing over to see her at her sister's house, begging her to "say something that will please me, for really I have not been pleased since I left you." But he ended the affair tepidly with a negative proposal...
...armed might of the British Raj stood on the alert for further trouble. Although mutinous seamen returned to their duties, sympathy strikes broke out. Boiling India last week had cooled down to a simmer...