Word: shiver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further inquiries with a prefatory note: "I now wish to state beforehand that the social, sexual, and alimentary habits, the religious beliefs, the medical practices, and other modes and manners described in this book . . . are sober anthropological facts, applying chiefly to the Central Eskimos." Even thus warned, readers will shiver at some of the "cold facts" that turn up in Top of the World...
...fireside adventurer, Fawcett Publications' True and Popular Publications' Argosy are tailor-made. Each month they whirl their male fans away from the humdrum of business, budgets and the family, to shiver with a ski patrol as "They Cheat Death in the Alps," sweat as a motorcycle daredevil shows "How to Ride Up a Wall," cheer for the Old Blue bullfighter in "Yale Man Versus Toro," and squeeze the trigger when "Grizzlies Spell Trouble." The biggest difference between the two: Argosy runs fiction, True aims at facts...
Despite the joint machinations of the Weatherman and John L. Lewis, Harvard students will not shiver in bed this winter...