Word: chillness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University at large will sympathize with the unfortunate inhabitants of the Yard and Business School dormitories from whom the chill breezes of Cambridge winter have elicited a chorus of complaint and protest. It is, indeed, a sad state of affairs when the heating management makes it necessary for the cloistered Senior to crawl between icy sheets after burning the mid-night oil. And it is hardly to be expected that future business magnates of the nation can survive the ordeal of climbing out from between warm blankets and dressing in the unfriendly atmosphere of refrigerator-like cubicles. No one will...
...gates opened. Within the castle a shrewd secretary appeared. Parley. The Kaiser was not immediately available. Would the Americans mind waiting just a little? The Americans were disinclined to wait, but already they had delayed too long. Dutch guards, grimly armed and in increasing numbers, tramped in from the chill night. Col. Lea and his supporters were forced reluctantly to leave without their Christmas present...
...small room in an English country house, famed Author Thomas Hardy lay sick in bed. Frail, 87, a little querulous in his talk, he still seemed unaccustomed to this invalid ease, the result of a chill he lad caught a month before. His hands, as thin and brown as claws, played nervously with the edge of his quilt. James Barrie came to talk to him; Hardy's peaked mournful face was turned sideways on its pillow, his voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected...
...Germany the Chancellor (Prime Minister) is expected always to retain his dignity, never to lose his temper. Therefore Dr. Marx stated to the German press with chill reserve the following grave charges...
...York University outsloshed Carnegie Tech through a chill drizzle 20-6, and is still unbeaten. Half back Briante smashed closer to Harold ("Red") Grange's phenomenal record of yards gained by rushing, passing the 1,000 mark on the first scrimmage; later dashed 50 yds. Grange's record...