Word: colder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colder & Colder & Colder. Trees, which gleamed like great crystal chandeliers and creaked like windmills, broke down by the thousands under their enormous loads of ice. Sagging power and telephone lines were carried away by crashing limbs. In hundreds of towns the night sky was lit by the weird blue flash and flare of high-voltage electricity. Lights went out, telephones went dead and electrically operated oil burners stopped running. Harassed storekeepers were deluged with demands for candles and axes...
Crimson skaters may get a colder welcome home than they anticipated on returning to the Arena ice at 8 o'clock tonight. For a couple of months now the Chasemen have been looking forward to the Northeastern game as something of a breather after a tough road trip, but the resurgent Huskies have come up strong in two recent engagements to threaten seriously the prized reputation of two favorite Hub sons...
...seems that the ice-cube cylinder keeps the "liquid" cold, without sterilizing it with water, and that the wooden keg keeps the whole business even colder. The thing stands 15 inches high, and looks like a "piece of furniture...
Huntington may be best remembered for his theories about the influence of climate on civilization. He argued that as civilization develops, it moves toward colder regions. The earliest civilized people hardly ventured away from the warm lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia; their technique of life could not cope with even a mild winter. The Greeks and Romans knew more about battling winter, and benefited from the mental stimulus of the north Mediterranean climate. After the invention of the chimney and other body warmers, civilization throve best in North Europe and America, where the cold, changeable climate kept minds alert...
This poetry of despair sprang from the depths of serfdom, in lands where the soil is hard, the sun is cold, and foreign masters have always been harder and colder than either. For centuries, Baltic peasants have labored for their feudal lords-Swedes, Russians, Poles, Germans. Today, the Baltic peasant serves an old master under a new form of serfdom. He serves Communist Russia...