Word: chillness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ludendorff. Certain Paul Reveres in automobiles sent out by Hitler have been captured and have admitted, under third degree tactics, that invasion of Prussia is imminent. The announcement that the Hitler Guards were to turn out for "field manoeuvres" yesterday seems to have given Herr Severing his extraordinary nervous chill...
...false hope brightens the spirits of the hats as they wait in the Crimson building. Who knows but they may be called again? Who knows but they may again sweep down the stream of life? But the days go by and no one comes in. . . . The sunsinks and the chill of night comes into the air. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin
...third play, "The Blind", by Maurice Maeterlinck, is remarkable for the dominating note of fear expressed by the twelve blind men and women who are lost in a wood. Then, as evening comes and the chill of night fills the wood, not only the players seem chilled by the cold but the audience itself is irresistibly affected, so great is the author's power of vividly reproducing human sensation...
Student life was both Spartan and Puritan in the early days of Massachusetts Hall. The students performed their ablutions in the chill New England air at a pump in the College yard. The regulation College breakfast was "a cue (mug) of beer and two sizings of bread." Students were up at daybreak and were kept at their studies by candle-light. If the frequent verbal admonitions of their tutors failed to keep them at their books, a stout stick was resorted to. One unfortunate youth, on being chastised by the Reverend Nathaniel Eaton, first President of Harvard, cried aloud...