Word: tepidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt was made to view the remains of Messrs Barium and Ringling Brother's Circus Success did not and even the gentle little speculators were far distant from the adjoining sidewalks. Having thus been balked in our attempt to add a see and bit of sunshine to an otherwise tepid stay in the metropolis we returned to these so much sadder and wiser that to deliver a worthy discuses today is utterly out of the question...
...starts John Garth back to life by leaving Matthew Knowle. . . . Admirers of the British literary male will call Julia "a brick" and the book a triumph. Others may say that Author Owen, a polished writer withal, has merely sublimated a personal desire in the tepid crucible of melodrama...
...reminded the Academicians that the sun always keeps the temperature of equatorial waters at between at and 86° Fahrenheit and that a relatively small amount of earth fuel (coal, gas, wood) would raise this already tepid, preheated water to the boiling point (212°). The result would be steam, for operating steam turbines...
...eleven-thirty everybody's happy. In the first place, the professional cynic rejoices that "The Student Prince," after floating around in the tepid air of optimism, comes down to earth at the end in amiable but genuine tragedy. He can go to bed reflecting that "After all..." Then, there is much for the other kind of sentimentalist is to be grateful for. He can forget that the King can no longer be a prince or student and that the charming Kathie must be another's Frau. He can remember only that the days of youth are the wisest after...
Miss Lillian Harrison, Argentine swimmer training to swim the English Channel, last week performed this feat as part of her training. She entered a marathon swim from Corbell to Paris, one woman in a field of eleven men. Two black Senegalese swimmers, accustomed to the tepid rivers of Afria, turned saffron, then green with cold, left the race. T. W. Burgess, Englishman who swam the Channel in 1911, followed suit. One by one the giant swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies...