Word: chillness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unimaginative readers of the usually decorous New York Times felt the very marrow chill in their bones last week at a certain headline...
...physicist advances the idea that perpetual air currents caused by the difference of temperature in the upper and lower parts of the case are the cause. This theory falls, however, in the chill light of fact, for the case is absolutely airtight...
...Shield From Chill Syrian Winter...
...with relatives by the efforts of the Near East Relief were made homeless. And now the city of Beirut is filled with refugees chiefly women and children, penniless and without any means of support or protection, who have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter and the burning desert sun of summer...
...Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, Calif., where Pacific breezes make days pleasant and nights chill, for 50 years Naturalist Luther Burbank has been making a bit of desert bloom weirdly yet profitably. Since 1875 he has been on his experiment farm mating pistils to stamens in strange concubinage, getting sometimes a beautiful scion, sometimes a grotesque mongrel, sometimes finding a futile barrenness. Last week Naturalist Burbank was elated, greeted pressmen with news of seven miracles of hybridization in plants. He reported a new camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn...