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Hottest Flame. Dr. Irving Langmuir of the General Electric Company described his discovery of a flame hotter than hydrogen burning in oxygen (oxy-hydrogen). He made atomic hydrogen burn in an atmosphere of molecular hydrogen. His hydrogen blowtorch melted tungsten wire like an icicle, indicating that its heat was at least 7,000° F. Playing on a sheet of chrome steel the flame left molten pools behind it. Significance: steel girders could be welded silently instead of noisily riveted;* the welds would not (as when an oxyhydrogen flame is used) be oxidized and thus weakened, they would be annealing...
...Hotter than any flame is the electric arc already adapted to girder-welding (TIME...
...heat-hoping that after Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang was ousted from Peking (TIME, April 5, et seq.) its co-conquerors, Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, would set up a stable government. That hope has eluded fulfillment like a mirage and Peking has grown hot, hotter, too hot. Last week the delegates passed a motion to adjourn indefinitely, packed their traps and trinkets, departed...
...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
When Eamonn (Edward) De Valera, Hispano-Gaelic* hothead, resigned from the presidency of Sinn Fein* (TIME, March 22), the world learned with surprise that there are hotter heads than his in the party, that they had voted down "his policies...