Word: coldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday was the coldest day experienced in Cambridge this year, the thermometer registering three degrees below zero in the morning...
...gymnasium are again out of order. We have been told by the goody - that is to say, the cleanly, - that when they come in hot and exhausted from a foot-ball game and wish to bathe their bruised limbs in tepid steam and ease their wounds, nothing but the coldest of water can be had to solace them water so cold that it parches the skin and cracks the muscles and sends a man tottering out to the bleak entry prematurely aged like an Arctic explorer. Not so with the rugged stoic who delights, like Caesar's Germans, to lave...
...weather yesterday was the coldest known for several years. The thermometer reached 12 degrees below zero at Beck, which is generally known as the hottest place in Cambridge...
According to Prof. Loomis of Yale College, last month was the coldest February, with two exceptions, that there has been for one hundred years...
...gymnasium is very close and fatiguing to men on the running track, our crews may not find it beneficial to follow this rule. The great abuse, however, of the refreshing and wholesome out door exercise lies in taking it when the thermometer atands below zero. On the coldest day this winter, when few persons ventured across the yard without a heavy overcoat, when rooms in Thayer and Holyoke could not be heated above forty or fifty degrees, one of the crews had the hardihood to run up North Avenue, clad in the scanty and inadequate clothing of the gymnasium...