Word: colder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anonymous door is slowly pushed aside to reveal a slightly colder atmosphere. The chill resides not only in the depressed temperature but also in the stasis of the objects, the artificial lighting. You are now inside the Fogg Art Museum cold storage facility. Located in the basement of the museum, cold storage is not only a repository for the leftover masterpieces of the Fogg's ever-burgeoning collection, but is also the surrogate home of Mark Rothko's mythical Harvard murals. Unlike its fellow occupants, the Rothko murals, wrapped twice over in heavy, light-blocking plastic, have emerged only...
...heard that it was a terrifying, mean, competitive and aggressive place," Rakoff says. "But I didn't think that the students were cutthroat and competitive. I think it was a colder place than...
...linked to the natural hot and cold cycles that have affected the earth since prehistory, causing, for instance, the ice ages that resulted in glaciers covering much of North America and Northern Europe and the subsequent thaws. A growing number of scientists, noting recent, unpredictable climatic changes ? including colder temperatures in some areas ? that defy patterns of both natural and greenhouse effects, attribute the current warming trend to the combined contributions of man and nature...
...into slave dialect and calling the other Justices "Massa." In 1980, when the University of Maryland Law School dedicated its new library to him, Marshall wouldn't attend the ceremony. The school was just "trying to salve its conscience for excluding the Negroes," he said. As the court grew colder to civil rights, he did little to hide his bitterness. In one of his last opinions before his retirement in 1991, Marshall complained that "power not reason is the new currency of this court's decision making." He died...
...People use the on-line services more when theweather is colder," Dickson said