Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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director of the Observatory since 1931, and E. Monroe Howard, Jr., research assistant, are studying the indications given by the clouds. In short term forecasting of snow storms certain clouds fortell a day ahead and give rough indications of when the snow will begin, how severe it will be, and how long it will last...
Professor Morison did not dwell at length on the well-worn, familiar facts of Harvard history, but instead introduced comparatively new material. Thus, we learn that in the days when term-bills were paid in produce, one scholar was credited with an animal's "suet innards" and another with a "piece of stuff...
...cold in the head. He could not understand the experiments with broken light of Monet and Pissarro. All Degas' famed sporting pictures were painted in his studio from rapid pencil sketches. Though one of the greatest of figure painters, he despised women. "Little rats" was his favorite term for the ballet dancers who posed for his great pastel studies, and he seemed to take a malicious delight in twisting them into uncomfortable postures...
Black Limelight (by Gordon Sherry; Busbar & Tuerk, producers). The villain of Black Limelight suffers from "nyctalopia." This medical term actually means an eyesight defect resulting in poor vision at night, but for the purposes of Author Gordon Sherry (a pseudonym) it refers to eyes which can see well in the dark but must be protected by thick glasses from the light of day. The monster's homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic...
...which he deposited in three London banks in mortal fear of Communists. Famed for his self-confessed seductions, he dropped more than one hint confirming rumors of his sexual impotence, but threatened to vindicate his virility through the public courts. A onetime Irish Nationalist, he later served a term as sheriff, brooded over his neglect by the English aristocracy, became so agitated when finally given an audience in 1930 with the Prince of Wales that his nose bled violently...