Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which was only one-seventh full upon starting. Yes, it was fortunate that their oxygen held out so long. No, they suffered no hardship except heat and thirst. Half the shell of the gondola had been painted black to absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result: When far aloft, the air was 75° below zero Fahrenheit outside, it was 106° above inside. Their drinking water ran out. They resorted to licking the condensed moisture from the walls of their cabin. As to their flight itself, they had ascended much faster than they desired. But "our ascent...
...Berlin, Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener's widow commissioned her brother-in-law, Professor Kurt Wegener, meteorologist, who at once prepared to go to Greenland to take command of the expedition. She told him to leave her husband's body at rest in its frigid tomb...
...Unconscious Lawrence's best book), he praises as well as blames him as a man, says Lawrence should not be judged but loved. "Much better 'art' has been produced by Lawrence's contemporaries; books better shaped, novels more objectively conceived, poems more concentrated. Beside Lawrence's work they seem frigid and futile. It is simply that they are not commensurate with our deep needs of today. Our modern art is all obviously, irremediably minor. And it must necessarily be minor, so long as its aim is to be art. There is. and always will be, a place for minor...
...York to satisfy their theatrical appetites or else stay at home in Boston, repelled from the theatre by stupid and unnecessarily stringent censorship. It is useless to blame the producers or the dramatist if the city insists upon emasculating nearly every play that ventures into this frigid atmosphere...
...Greenwich Village girl art student into court, accused her of living with a man. By Judge Norris' order and without recourse, the artist was lodged in a home for wayward girls within two hours of her arrest. Throughout the recital of her alleged irregularities Magistrate Norris preserved a frigid calm, gave as good as she received. But yeast proved her undoing...