Word: tepidity
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Miss Eloysa Levine, nine-year-old daughter of New York-Paris Flight-Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin for a ride. As the plane took off, a bolt was sheared in the shock absorbers, crippling the landing dolly, meaning disaster 99 out of a 100 cases...
...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...