Word: icing
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...Four points in any weekend is great, but especially having gone through what we have been through, I think its especially important,” Donato said. “We really have our eyes focused on getting home ice in the first round...
...Home ice will be especially important for the Crimson. This season, Harvard is 7-1-1 at home in ECAC play...
...Nagyvary believes this evidence upends the widespread belief among instrument makers that only the strongest wood can produce a lush, full sound. According to Nagyvary, the opposite is true. He also says it casts doubt on the working hypothesis of many scientists that Stradivari worked during Europe's "little ice age" of the 15th-17th centuries, in which low summer temperatures led to slow but uniform growth in the Spruce trees used for instruments, and that the wood's uniform density explains the instruments' high quality of sound. Last year, researchers in The Netherlands and the U.S. used medical imaging...
...problem with the Little Ice Age Theory," he says, "is that the same wood was available to French, German and other violin makers in Europe, but only instruments made in Cremona were any good. I believe that's because of the special, preservative varnish used there...
Weather may have been a factor in the Buffalo incident. According to Accuweather.com, at the time of the crash, winds were gusting up to 25 mph, visibility was down to three miles because of snow and other planes at the same time "reported a bit of ice on their wings." (See "Plane Crash in the Hudson River...