Word: heated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Temperamental weather, including heat, hail and thunder storms, chills and high winds, have proved disturbing to grain prices, although advancing them. Outside that, the week proved serene and somewhat monotonously cheerful. Perhaps the improvement in what is called "business sentiment" was revealed in the stockmarket, where a tendency was shown to lift prices out of their late doldrums...
...Lawrence High schools won the two classes of the fifth annual outdoor championship track and field meeting of the Massachusetts High School Athletic Association conducted Saturday in the Stadium. None of the Boston high schools competed in the meet because school had been dismissed on account of the heat...
...recent heat wave, however unpleasant it may have been to the average undergraduate, has had a stimulating effect on general business conditions around the Square according to the statements of salesmen and merchants...
Despite the very informal attire which became the rule among undergraduates in an effort to avoid the heat the clothing stores reported a record breaking business selling light flannel trousers and linen knickers. One salesman declared that his organization disposed of its entire stock of knickers in the first two days of blistering heat and had to send in a rush order for 100 more pairs...
Beside seeking relief from the heat in iced drinks and cool clothes many students spent their spare moments between examinations and study swimming. The University pools were continually filled and in Westmorly it was said that the janitor had to spend most of his time keeping unauthorized persons from utilizing the facilities reserved only for students in the dormitory. The Charles was popular despite a slight typhoid scare and the two boat-houses provided, swimming, diving and dressing places for numbers of hot, tired students...