Word: cold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permission "to sound a convincing note of faith and hope in the future of humanity." He described himself to his hearers: "It has been no part of mine to build castles of the future but rather to measure the experiments, the actions and the progress of men through the cold and uninspiring microscope of fact, statistics and performance." Then he said he really believed that "the Western World stands upon the threshold of a new era of advancement. . . . And the outlook socially, as well as economically and politically, is hopeful. Education and learning, decrease in poverty and the ideal...
...came to the executive palace to work on his portrait I was pleasantly surprised to find the room heated. His servant then said to me, 'Oh, that was done at the President's personal order. He thought you might find it disagreeable to work in a cold room...
...loggerhead turtle is posed in frantic flight in an exhibition case of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Its neck is stretched far forward; its flippers beat the water; its runty tail sticks straight out behind. Driving after the turtle are several varieties of sharks-leathery bodies, cold, piggish eyes, blunt snouts all straining towards the prey...
...Cold winds blew Chicago's packing house stenches over the Union Stock Yard. But the trainloads of farmers, breeders, fitters, butchers, hay & grain raisers there with their families minded the fetid air not at all. They were in Chicago for their year's biggest holiday...
...order" comes to bat in a rally two runners on base, two out, the score in a ticklish position, and the pitcher up. How many in the bleachers would substitute invariably for the trembling of the game in the chances of a weak hitter or a pinch-hitter entering cold, the placid content in the assurance that Casey, mighty Casey, or someone nearly as mighty, is advancing...