Word: heated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many complications which might easily arise under the scope of such a colossal task, the reader never feels lost or bewilderd. The delineation's of the actual characters of the Civil War which Benet draws are superbly real. They glow with the intense fire of humanity and the heat from them makes every word sparkle with the sheer reality that at last a poet, using a medium of great poetry and not prose gone mad, has accomplished an enthralling tale of an always peculiarly fascinating...
Since South Africander Hertzog is of Dutch descent and rather relishes baiting Englishmen, there is some reason to suppose that he deliberately upset the intended emphasis on Edward of Wales. The Prime Minister's excuse is, clearly, that his indiscreet interview was given in the heat of a verbal battle, at Pretoria, with the nationalist politicians of those parts who bluntly demand secession from Britain and proclamation of a Republic...
...explain how this idea came to me. The men of Harvard are the cause of it. They are the most courteous and polite set of men I have ever met on an athletic field. It seems to be traditional with them to be gracious even when in the heat of competition, to accede whenever possible to the wishes of an opponent. I am referring here to their field men, their shotput, discus, hammer and javelin men, who, both in physique and bearing, remind me of the ancient Greeks and Romans I have read about...
...discomfort of last week's heat, the report on the relation between weather and crime, made by Dr. Edwin Grant Dexter, to the National Probation Society, received national attention. Dr. Dexter analyzed the 12-year police and weather statistics of New York and Denver. His conclusions...
...from the rest of Asia Minor by a barrier of rugged mountains, blessing it with political and climatic isolation. Rarely above 88° in summer or below 10° in winter, the weather, humid, temperate, contrasts with that of not distant inland regions where great extremes of heat and cold are common...