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Word: steamed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters a ready explanation for this phenomenon. Like most Europeans, he said, Danes were slow to install central heating systems, common in U. S. homes. Throughout the long, cold winters they shivered, exercised, ate heavily to generate their own body heat. But recently Denmark acquired hot-air furnaces and steam radiators. Result: the Danes, still eating heavily, lounge comfortably in their warm rooms, convert the excess food into fat instead of heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fat Danes | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Detroit, Mrs. Thomas J. Middleton, Negro, hired a steam shovel to dig holes in her back yard. A dream had revealed to her that gold was buried there. Neighbors were annoyed by the dust, smoke and noise. Said Mrs. Middleton: "They needn't be so uppity. I catch them digging in my back yard themselves at night since I had my visions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...spinning it in order to make the unborn salamander dizzy - but to show that its tiny body possessed a sort of electrical shadow, that it could be used like a piece of electrical apparatus. The spinning salamander induced a feeble electric current in a wire, just as a big steam generator creates a big current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...only weapons used are the refusal of advertisements and publicizing the evil there can be no hope of success. Such tactics only move tutoring school ads from the back pages to the front page headlines with nothing but a loss to the business board and a little editorial steam blown off. --Daily Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORING TROUBLES | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...overhanging stern. While wharf crews took off her cargo, including ten U. S. warplanes not yet unloaded; fireboats poured tons of water into her blazing bowels, rigged webs of cables to keep her upright at the pier. Toward morning, with her red-hot sides sending out great clouds of steam, the Paris crankily listed to port, snapped the cables like twine, heeled over on her side and slowly settled in six fathoms, where at week's end she lay, gutted and disheveled, with her starboard screw out of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Jinx | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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