Word: torrid
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...that certain individuals might better display their originality. Hence the student body now faces not alone examinations which prove to the office that he has in a measure heeded the discourse and developed the hints of his instructor but those which show just how well he is able in torrid weather and with a mind fatigued from the monotony and length of the college year to do mental tricks for the edification of his faculty Examinations in English literature, for instance, are so arranged that the professor can eventually stand before some conference of wits and say. "I asked...
...workers in Anhui province rivet together prefabricated structures for factory assembly lines, which churn out goods for stores like Wal-Mart. A year ago business was so brisk that the company imported 70 workers from distant Shandong province to keep up with demand. But the mainland's torrid investment in everything from automobile plants to office high-rises to railroads has boosted the price the company pays for its main raw material, steel, by 24% in just four months. Yet the company hasn't been able to raise its own prices because most of its customers signed contracts last year...
...bats are still there—Harvard still leads the Ancient Eight in home runs and RBI. But pin the Crimson’s torrid Ivy winning streak—they swept the Columbia Lions (8-16, 5-5 Ivy) in Friday’s doubleheader 4-3 and 10-2, bringing the streak to five games—on something quite different...
Brown’s shooters began to cool off slightly, but the Bears didn’t abandon their torrid pace...
DIED. ANITA MUI, 40, sultry pop star whose torrid concerts earned her the tag the Asian Madonna; of complications from cervical cancer; in Hong Kong. She sold more than 10 million albums and was a charismatic actress in Hong Kong films, notably as a ghost lover in Rouge, as a Japanese spy in Kawashima Yoshiko and as Tung the Wonder Woman in The Heroic Trio...