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...been flexed in a sort of effort to huddle up, and I had been very conscious of the cold. Then a moment came when I stretched out my legs; the sense of coldness passed away, and it was succeeded by a beautiful feeling of warmth; the word 'bask' most fitly describes my condition: I was basking in the cold. What had taken place, I suppose, was that my central nervous system had given up the fight, that the vasoconstriction had passed from my skin, and that the blood returning thither gave that sensation of warmth which one experiences...
...bask in no reflected glory...
...name of Jean Julius Christian Sibelius has spread far beyond Finland's narrow borders. Authoritative critics now rate him as one of the world's great composers and respect him all the more for his quiet independent ways. Few great musicians have refused to advertise themselves, to bask in the hot spotlight of the world's leading music capitals. But Sibelius, who was born of Finnish farming stock, nursed on Finnish folksongs, has remained resolutely Finnish to this day. In his course of study he spent a year in Berlin, two years in Vienna. The impressions soon...
...points: 1) The Disarmament Conference will not act on Soviet Commissar Maxim Litvinoffs proposal that it turn itself into the Permanent Conference for Promotion of Peace but will submit this idea to all governments; 2) the main Disarmament Conference will adjourn this week until autumn but several committees will bask along in Geneva all summer; 3) the work of the Conference shall proceed "without prejudice to private conversations on which the governments will desire to enter in order to facilitate the attainment of final success by the return of Germany to the Conference...
...millions of our countrymen and American youth our beloved Lindy remains No. 1 Hero, who, by his modesty and good sense, his refusal to capitalize his fame, his shunning of publicity rather than ever seeking to bask in the limelight, is a model that many of our public men might well pattern after...