Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hopes of attending, but may even sleep through an impending examination. As soon, however, as the spring sun gets back to its habits of yore, and the weather man recollects that it is no longer April, but close to the end of May, we shall once more be hot on the trail of an early morning education...
...British Delegation, and, in business life, president of the immensely potent and monopolistic Federation of British Industries. Naturally, rubber was the elastic bone of the Robinson-Muspratt contention, for the British rubber monopoly (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926) has forced U. S. citizens to pay dear for tires, hot-water bottles, teething rings...
...curtain figuratively rises, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg stands up and moves a second reading. Correspondents note his erect, judicial poise, wonder how long he will keep cool under the barrage of jeers which Laborites will soon make hot. Racing pencils jot names of major characters and their more and more pungent speeches as the drama plays on and upward to crescendo...
...Vienna. His narrow dexterous fingers sank into the keys of the instrument as if sowing in neat rows the seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...
...Cambridge. Nine men in old clothes filed out--of the CRIMSON building with clubs over their shoulders to meet the strangers from New Jersey. It was the first conflict between the warriors of the two colleges this spring. They crossed bats on Soldiers Field. A furious mound battle waxed hot for hours under the vigilant eye of Boston police. Neither side could get the advantage. Darkness came with the score tied. They carried the fight indoors. Banquetting followed. At 3 next morning empty cases were seen piled high about the scene of the last stage of the fray. The CRIMSON...