Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, the Pullman Co. named a car after a Negro porter. Rejecting, for the first time in its history, the tepid, sad-eyed romanticism of such names as Bellameade, Merryvale, Alamar, it christened a car after a Negro who died, last month, in an attempt to save the lives of the passengers when his car was wrecked in New Jersey*-Oscar J. Daniels...
Wreathed in smells and tepid vapors...
...Barbara. A forlorn sample from the musical comedy factories slipped rather abruptly into town under this tepid title. Owing to fancied labor troubles in Boston, the production opened without benefit of preliminary tests. Witnesses declared that Boston was blessed by the loss. Writh the exception of Jack Hazzard and a tune or two, Bye, Bye, Barbara was pale entertainment...
When Joan Converse, child of a rich, unpleasant mother who went through life simmering in a tepid steam of easy admiration, and an ineffective father whom Mrs. Converse had discarded from her egocentric cosmos like a rejected peachpit, first met Jeffrey, she fell in love with him ?instanter and unwaveringly?in spite of the facts that he was a crazy undergraduate poet with a wild reputation and that his devotion to spoiled, lovely Inez Martin was well known. In fact, for a long, long time Joan didn't seem to have even half a chance...
...remedy for the late stages of infantile paralysis (anterior poliomyelitis) was tried out at the Northwestern University Medical School and used by the Visiting Nurses' Assocciation of Chicago. Graded exercises for the children's paralyzed limbs are performed in a large circular tank partly filled with shallow, tepid water. The children sit on a circular bench in the tank with their legs immersed for several hours at a time. The device was suggested by a woman whose little daughter, crippled by the disease, was taken to Florida and allowed to spend much time in the warm water...