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Some time within the next hundred years, the hottest spot in North America (California's Death Valley) will swelter at a temperature of 130° F. In northern Montana, at least once during the next century, thermometers will register a numbing 64° below zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Odds on the Weather | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Lamont, instead of swelter-free, is stuffy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ode to Circulation | 5/27/1952 | See Source »

More seersucker jackets came out of dark closest recesses yesterday as Cambridge continued to swelter through the warmest autumn week in local history. Boston weather bureau officials envisioned no relief for three or four days, although temperatures will probably not climb back to the record-breaking peak of 83 degrees on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seersucker Blooms Forth as Old Sol Pushes Mercury to Peak Recordings | 10/21/1947 | See Source »

...least one got through. And since Malta has been pounded daily by Axis bombers, the proportion is probably larger. The sinking of four ships suggested that the Axis is determined to keep Field Marshal Erwin Rommel up to attack strength, even though North Africa is already beginning to swelter in its unbearable summer heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Down, Four Through | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...admits it, is a moron, I admit of no defense. Once I deplored the stupidity of the ivory-tower artists; there I made a mistake. Ivory towers may fall and the occupants may be crushed, but who would not choose to be crushed rather than to swelter in a stinking cesspool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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