Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days last week before the House Judiciary Committee Wet speakers stormed and thundered at Prohibition-as-is, but all their torrid talk did not change a single Dry vote in Congress. The occasion was the first official hearings given by the House to proponents of modification (TIME, Feb. 10). The Judiciary Committee had before it seven resolutions proposing repeal of the 18th Amendment, of the Volstead Act. Anticipating a large audience, Chairman Graham moved his committee temporarily into the vast white marble Caucus Room of the House office building. Some 200 spectators appeared, more than half of them women. Though...
...President Hoover last week approved installation in his executive offices, now being rebuilt after the fire, of an air-filtering and cooling system similar to those in the House and Senate chambers. In torrid weather all windows will be kept closed while machinery in the basement supplies air cooled by the equivalent of 30 tons of melting ice per day. Meanwhile builders on the $160,000 reconstruction job were trying to earn the $200 bonus they will get for every day they lop off on the 90-day contract schedule, to avoid a $200-per-day forfeit for overtime...
...products at Elk River, Minn., offered an unorthodox theory to account for certain odd phenomena-the freezing of mastodons in Siberia with half eaten grass in their mouths, the sudden razing of forests whose fossils are found lying horizontally, the drifting of continents, the dislocation of Arctic, Temperate and Torrid Zones, the failure of the magnetic poles to coincide with the terrestrial poles. Mr. Longfellow's theory is that the moon in comparatively recent times popped out from where the Pacific now is and suddenly jerked the earth awry...