Word: heating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sought in art,- the pageant of moving light and air. Going out at dawn into a field near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little haystacks under the light of early morning. Another day, he would paint the same stacks, through the heat-shimmer of high Normandy noon. Then he mould paint them at dusk, or half-hidden with rain, coated with snow, or red with the sunset. The musical expression, " Air, with variations," is true in many senses of Monet's greatest work. The famous series are exquisite color harmonies, -blurred...
...though trifling, eruptions within our sun. Since the stars that suddenly become twice as brilliant are supposed to be in about the same stage of development as our sun, the latter too might at any time flare up as the stars have done; and if it did, the intense heat would consume everything on earth as fiercely as an acetyline torch licks up a few blades of grass. This unpleasant assumption is based on mere conjecture. It is a known fact, however, that these variable stars eventually drop back to their original magnitude or brilliancy...
...dying fires of the Polish-Lithuanian boundary dispute over Vilna do not signify that the heat is dead. An armistice agreed upon by both sides is only a lull in the hostilities that have been adding their quota to wrecking the peace equilibrium maintained with such immense difficulty in Europe...
Chapin sprang a surprise in the dash by taking second place, but the hurdles were a disappointment for the Crimson in that Hauers, who was favored to place high, slipped in an early heat and failed to qualify. Fletcher was third. Murphy's race in the 300 was one of the features of the evening. He ran brilliantly for two full laps, leading a field of much more experienced men, but ran himself out before a sensational finish when two Dartmouth men snatched the two first places from his grasp...
...Yard Low Hurdles.--First heat.--Won by J. M. Potter (H). Time, 6 3-5a. Second heat.--Won by L. V. McMaster (H). Time, 6 2-5s. Third heat.-- Won by R. G. Allen (H). Time, 6s. No final heat...