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Word: colder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watson provides a double advantage to the Crimson, for it also helps its position style of hockey. Smaller and colder than the Eagles' McHugh Forum, it will reduce the advantage of B.C.'s speedsters, Ron Walsh, Owen Hughes and Tommy Martin. Instead of falling prey to Martin's long sleeper-play passes up the middle to a wing at the offensive blue line, the varsity can tighten things up by playing "position...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Opportunity Knocks For Sextet Tonight with B.C. at Watson | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

...other papers, which must keep a colder eye on the ledger, laid off most of their newsmen. The Herald Tribune retained key staffers, managed to keep up a normal flow of news to its Paris-printed edition, which delivered without interruption. At the New Dealing Post, Editor James Wechsler heard that Publisher Dorothy Schiff had "furloughed" her men, stalked out on leave without pay, along with his staff. Cooed Dolly: "It's typical of Jimmy's nobility to have done that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New York Without Papers | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Cats are nice too, less popular perhaps than their canine friends, possibly colder, less affectionate, but nice all the same. Beautiful, too, so clean, soft, agile, so pleasant when they purr. Of course black cats are the object of no little disdain, but we like them too. Still, a Harvard House is scarcely their proper place, and House dining halls are far too frequently targets of feline invasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crass Menagerie | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...bursting seas were cold-40°-and the air above the water was even colder. The men huddled together, breathed warmth onto each other's bodies. Fleming directed Mays and Strzelecki to hold on to each other as he put his arm around Meredith, scantily dressed and near freezing. Fleming kept telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Death of the Bradley | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

When carbon black is released in moist, cloudless air the effect is opposite but no less magical. Its black particles catch sunlight and heat the air between them. The heated air rises, expands and grows colder. Some of its moisture condenses, and a new, white cloud appears in the sky. This system will not form clouds in dry air, but when the air is moist enough, it works almost every time. The official Navy attitude is that the action of carbon black is "an interesting effect" that will have to be studied a great deal more before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rainmaking with Soot? | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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