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Word: colder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careerist. Tennist Wills found the University of California an irrelevant interlude until she heard about Phi Beta Kappa. Then she ascertained "what average was necessary" and for three years did just enough work, in between tournaments, to win her key. "Pride," reflects Autobiographer Wills, ". . . gave way to a much colder thing. Ambition." Other Wills revelations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Woman | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...China along the top of Norway & Russia. Sebastian Cabot initiated its search in 1553. Henry Hudson twice attempted a passage but it was not until 1879 that the route was navigated. Now Russia currently operates 160 freighters on summer schedules in the Northeast Passage's more open but colder waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Northwest Passage II | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...strike is all right for down in Utah, but it's a lot colder up north here, and after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERM-LADEN KISSES | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Nights the one window in the bedroom of my Attic makes clatter enough for twenty, shaking and banging, postponing sleep. Lie and shiver under blankets as proof as gossamer, which absorbs the sheets' unfriendly chill. Gradually warmer inside and colder outside my bed. The tip of the nose stays outside the blankets, stays cold. Like a healthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/18/1936 | See Source »

...forecast predicts light rain to snow flurries and colder in New Hampshire and Vermont. Fresh westerly winds changing to north...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD MAN WINTER FEARFUL FOR SKIERS THIS WEEKEND | 3/13/1936 | See Source »

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