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...that the cat is out of the bag it remains only for Gibbons to nourish himself with Nuxated and knock the champion frigid in their next encounter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Nuxated Knockouts | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...Hungarian of only eighteen years of age. His playing of Liszt's pyrotechnic concerto was superb, and he surpassed both previous performances in Boston. His technique was flawless; his control of tone in the more sentimental passages was in excellent taste. Fortunately "Sadko" had sufficiently aroused a decidedly frigid audience to give him the warm applause he merited...

Author: By A. L. S. ., | Title: BRILLIANT OPENING OF SYMPHONY CONCERTS | 10/22/1921 | See Source »

What at college, will take the place of alcoholic liquors as a promoter of contacts, a revealer of sympathetic tastes, a humanizer of stiff and frigid young minds? Why has drink played the important part that it has in college fiction, unless it is that the writers of college fiction have recognized its influence in shaping human relations at college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 9/24/1919 | See Source »

Most of our undergraduates expected that Ayer would be their destination, and the Sunny South of New York State comes as a relief. In spite of all that has been said, Yaphank is not a bad spot to spend the winter. Undoubtedly it is less frigid than Ayer; in fact the center of Long Island is supposedly ten degrees warmer than New York City itself. The coating of snow and ice will keep the terrible dust down; the monotany of swamp-oak will be broken by this time by the newly-laid out drill grounds and cantonments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YAPHANK. | 10/23/1917 | See Source »

...ever, except in spring, summer, and very early autumn, the Seniors are forced to complain, between chattering teeth, of the frigid atmosphere in their rooms. All day long the temperature is noticeably below the comfort point. And at about 10 P. M. even this meager amount of heat disappears. "Early to bed and early to rise,"--is this the schoolboy formula under which Seniors suffer? Or are the dispensers of warmth following a policy of economy? If so it may be suggested that Seniors will pay rather than freeze. Will those in charge recognize their duty, or is this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERE OR HEREAFTER? | 11/15/1915 | See Source »

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