Word: fur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from which air can be withdrawn at will and which can be cooled by means of a refrigerating machine, so that the occupants of the chamber may be made to experience these effects. Into this chamber three well known French military aviators, armed with oxygen tanks and clothed in fur costumes, were recently introduced and "ascended" some 30,000 feet without leaving the ground. At 3,500 meters the men were seen to don their oxygen masks, at 5,000 meters they stamped their feet and showed other signs of the extreme cold they were experiencing-at this altitude also...
...taking for granted of certain well-established theories of knowledge: gentlemanly conduct and morality. These generalities may or may not help you. As for a picture of these Yale men--they are, on the whole, well dressed. They are noted in winter-time for their large, Brown fur coats, brown hats, and unbuckled goloshes. At week-ends they appear in considerable numbers with brown suit-cases, headed to or from New York. In the Spring the seniors wear no hats, smoke shiny Dunhill pipes, and usually keep their dark suits faultlessly pressed. But, on the other hand, one sees...
Such fraternizing with fur and feather to simple souls is as inspiring as the recent action of the mercenary New York council is distressing. Those citizens even begrudged the expense of burying 55,238 eats, three elephants and an alligator that died struggling against the indifference of the moneyed million of the metropolis...
Personally, if there were only somebody writing for boys just now who could excavate something as thrilling as Kirk Munroe's Bick Dale or The Fur Seal's Tooth we wouldn't care whether a good deal of the modern literary school kept...
...recent statements concerning the decline in solar radiation do not form any basis for a belief that in a few years travellers in tropical regions will be obliged to wear fur coats, but they are indicative of scientific facts which bear an important relation to future forecasting of weather conditions", declared Mr. Henry Helm Clayton, prominent meteorologist, to a CRIMSON reporter in commenting upon the recent report of Dr. C. J. Abbott, of the Smithsonian Institute. Mr. Clayton has for many years cooperated with Dr. Abbott in the study of the effects upon the earth of changes in solar heat...