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...Carmen Cavallero came to Harvard on a nice hot evening bringing even a hotter band and, judging from the subscriptioned applause, the men enjoyed the affair quite a bit. We may, however, forget Carmen but who will forget the sultry, over-filled theatre, the cast drinking cool cokes and us just sitting there looking at those huge red coke dispensers and sweltering? I think that somebody forget to pass the ammunition...

Author: By S. O. Melvin parnell, | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

...walk two miles to work, eating whatever we can get on the way. We work in all kinds of weather on cold steel, with our hands, in winter, or in 130° or hotter temperature in summer. We eat cold lunches, and work from eight to ten hours per day, seven days per week, and get paid on a piecework basis (if we don't produce, we don't earn). We are subject to industrial accidents. Some of us are killed every day. In the event of serious injury or death, our dependents receive a small settlement under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1943 | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...Caribbean has been cleaned up sufficiently to justify sending Rear Admiral James L. ("Sub Buster") Kauffman last week to a hotter, undisclosed area of command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Desperate Campaign | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Negro municipal employes earning $4 weekly in Pretoria recently were promised a raise to $5 under a new Government minimum-wage ruling. When the City Council objected to the raise, 2,000 natives, mostly unschooled tribesmen, held a protest meeting. Speeches got hotter and so did the natives. The natives swarmed over Pretoria's broad streets, lined with jacaranda trees, into the low, white-stoned compound buildings, smashed up furnishings and anything smashable, attacked outnumbered police who tried to stop them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Hot Night In Pretoria | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...carbon atoms participate but are finally released unchanged. But it is the only theory which accounts for the sun. Further, it accounts for the energy of all the stars except the relatively cool "red giants." A star, in keeping with Bethe's theories on the sun, apparently gets hotter and brighter, "behaves very foolishly" toward the end, uses up the last of its fuel supply in a burst of glory and a "brilliant death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solar Fuel | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

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