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Word: colder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin. The coal will heat hospitals, prisons, courts, schools, and welfare establishments. If the 4,000-ton average is maintained, the extra 600 tons will consist of medical and welfare supplies, newsprint, and extra coal (for a few essential industries and emergency heat in private dwellings). Berliners will be colder than last winter and possibly colder than the winter before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: When Winter Comes | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...mere landmark, no mere handy figure for public relations officers. It is basic: the speed with which a "compression wave" (whether a faint whisper or the crushing shock wave of an atomic explosion) moves through air. The actual speed varies considerably with the air's temperature (the colder the slower). To eliminate this variability from their figuring, scientists have given the speed of sound a special name. In aerodynamics, the speed of sound in any air under consideration is called "Mach I,"* no matter what the actual speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Power to You | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...weather: Colder, with highest temperatures in the middle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truman and MacArthur Declare Willingness to Run If Nominated; Finns Will Negotiate With Russia | 3/9/1948 | See Source »

Icecaps & Atmosphere. Mars is considerably colder than the earth. The midday temperature in the Martian tropics rises only a few degrees above freezing. At night it probably falls to - 80°F. But even easygoing earth has living organisms that can stand such extremes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Far-Away Lichens | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Singeing in Sing Sing. For the sports-loving, rubbernecking world-at-large, Runyon never failed to raise the curtain with a maximum of gamy drama. "Now the woman and the crumpled little corset-salesman," he choruses in the Snyder-Gray case, "their once piping-hot passion colder than a dead man's toes, begin trying to save their respective skins from the singeing at Sing Sing." "Show us how you struck," the prosecutor orders Judd Gray, and up stands the little salesman, removes his spectacles, and "cocks" the very sash weight with which he bludgeoned his mistress' sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Things to All Men | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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