Word: colder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulty faced by the actors entrusted with the two main parts are considerable. Miss Frances Small gives a finely poised performance. Her emotional moments seemed to me not so convincing as the more subtle and colder meets. But her playing throughout is unusually satisfying. Mr. Eduardo Sanchez, essentially a capable and vigorous actor, will not come off quite so well with an even more difficult task. His tendency is a trifle toward conscious poetry in the reading of the lines. Perhaps a simple reading would be more effective...
...first", continued Mikkola, "way back in 1917 when he was only 20 years old, and it was much colder than today, even", he continued. "We have no board tracks, no indoor running in Finland and poor Nurmi was racing over a trail packed with snow. Of course, usually we do not run at all during the long winter, and Nurmi always walked 20 to 30 kilometers every day to keep in training...
Unless the weather becomes a great deal colder in the near future, it is not likely that the Freshman candidates will be called out as early as usual. It seems probable that they will have to wait for natural ice, instead of commencing practice in the Arena...
...Lake Kivu and Uganda. It embraces the three volcanoes of Mount Mikeno, Mount Karissimbi (altitude 13,500 feet) and Mount Visoke, comprising an area of about 250 square miles of high and healthful territory, with a variety of temperatures varying from the mild climate of the plains to the colder atmosphere of the mountain heights. Here our cousin, the gorilla, may live in peace; and the scientists, disarmed, may come and study the living animal on his native heath...
Captain Amundsen explains that at some thousands of feet, the temperature is less cold than at the surface of the ice. He hopes it will never be colder than 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero...