Word: colder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan has to call London, Paris, Berlin on the radio-telephone first: to check on connections, atmospheric conditions, whether the correspondents are ready with their stuff. One morning last week, Berlin came through crisp and clear. "B-r-r," said a Nazi voice in inspired English, "it's colder than hell over here." Then his accents froze stiff. "Sorry, gentlemen," said he, "I shouldn't have said that. It might give aid and comfort to the enemy...
...owned, all the sweaters, all the coats. I wore mittens and gloves and I sat writing and copying those letters, with tears partly of cold and partly of joy running down my face, because that library at Christ Church College had never been heated and it has grown colder by geometrical progression for 500 years...
Women have another advantage, according to Dr. Hardy, which enables them to stand cold better than men-"a thicker insulating layer of superficial tissue" (vulgar translation: blubber). This natural protection enables a naked woman to feel no colder in a cool room than a man with a light suit of clothes on.* Result of these superior adaptations both to heat and to cold is that the temperature range of the "comfort zone" is twice as wide for women...
...existence of animal life on Mars is anybody's guess. Mars is smaller, colder, drier than Earth, has a much thinner atmosphere. Adams and Dunham of Mt. Wilson have shown that the oxygen content of the Martian atmosphere must be less than 1% of the Earth's. Yet among different types of animal life on Earth there are enormous differences in the rate of oxygen intake, and it may be that animals on Mars have adapted themselves to the rare atmosphere by an ultra-slow rate of oxygen consumption. Such animals might be intelligent but they would also...
Fair weather tomorrow and colder temperatures are predicted by the weather bureau for Saturday with a steadily rising thermometer on Sunday...