Word: torrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown was solidly supported by Jim Fitzsimmons and reserve forward Lou Silver, Fitzsimmons's torrid first-half shooting was instrumental in the Crimson's amassing a 12 point bugle at intermission. Fitzsimmons scored 18 points in the first half on a 9-13 shooting spree (69 per cents. He finished the night with 21 points...
Marsh Jones led off the race, running a torrid pace. At one point, he was almost half a lap ahead. Jimmy Keefe ran second to Jones, with Durrette in third...
Writing in Science, Emiliani reports that the earth has undergone at least eight periods of extreme cold and seven of torrid heat in the past 400,000 years. His conclusion is based on cores of ocean sediment from the Caribbean. Composed of the remains of tiny sea animals, the layered sediment provides a record of climatic changes. When the oceans warm up, there is a decrease in the ratio of the isotope oxygen-18 to ordinary oxygen in the shells of the little creatures; when temperatures go down, the concentration of oxygen-18 goes up. Moreover, the proportions are preserved...
...mile race by 1.18 seconds over Former World Champion Denis Hulme of New Zealand. The Italian triumph was Fittipaldi's fifth Formula 1 Grand Prix victory in ten races this season-a remarkable record for a driver only in his second full Grand Prix season. At that torrid pace, he may well be on his way to winning more Grand Prix races than anyone else in history. Jim Clark, the Scotsman who was killed in a crash in 1969, set the current record...
...Professor Arlis Ehlen for his unorthodox views on the Old Testament (among other things, Ehlen questioned the historical accuracy of certain details of the crossing of the Red Sea). Then this month Preus declared war on President Tietjen himself, along with a majority of his faculty. Preus unleashed a torrid 160-page attack that accused various professors of tolerating aberrant interpretations on such key doctrines as the Virgin birth and the literalness of the creation narrative. The report, which was based on an eight-month investigation of the seminary by Preus' hand-picked fact-finding committee and was sent...