Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Misbehavior is less on calm days than on windy, because when weather is calm the air contains an excess of carbon dioxide, which lessens vitality...
...enquired, to have supper with him? Afterward, perhaps they would all go boating on the lake. So Albert La Frenière and the rest went to supper with the priest and later, in a gasoline launch, out across the close darkness of the lake. It was a warm, calm evening; everyone was apparently in the best of humor; no accident occurred to mar their merriment until when they had proceeded for about a mile the motor began to backfire. Father Dubuc leaned down to see what was wrong. There was a sharp detonation and a sheet of flame from...
...earth is thorough. Professor Heim of Zurich, who stated so last week, once fell off a precipice of Mount Saentis. He lit on his head and distinctly heard the thud. Stout, he recovered; introspective, he recalled his falling sensations. Delicious music soughed by his ears. He was very calm. Only after an hour from his rocky landing did he feel the pain of his broken bones...
...grave disorder. Picketeers banged the walls of their cells, shrieked foreign curses, sang ribald songs. Outside headquarters a mob of 10,000 seemed to spring out of the pavement, hooting and jeering. Police summoned guardsmen. Strikers retreated, their faces turned aside from bayonets. New Bedford rested in an electric calm...
...Hook, New York, Azara, a 113-foot schooner, hove languidly into sight of Santander, Spain, and was towed across the finish line. The winner of the race, Elena, had made the same voyage in 16 days, 21 hours (TIME, Aug. 6). Azara's major trouble was running into calm seas. In one four-day period she moved only 20 miles. But her owners, George J. and Francis E. Baker of Detroit, gallant sportsmen, refused to unseal her engines and use them, even though the fresh water supply was running...