Word: torrid
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...Great God Pan leering under a torrid moon...
...seven summers behind Manhattan, whose "Goldman Band" has just resumed its activities. Edwin Franko Goldman used to conduct his white-winged, leather-throated forces on the green at Columbia University, whift the grinning statue of the Great God Pan leered at the audience under the torrid moon. But that space has become too congested, Now the plangent tones of the cornet, the barbaric beatings of the bass-drums call New Yorkers to the Mall in Central Park every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening. Forty thousand attended the first concert. A new stand and sounding board, the gift...
Harvard caught a bit of the big league atmosphere yesterday afternoon at Fen way Park and played like champions, winning the rubber game from Princeton 5 to 3 in ten torrid innings. With the exception of a flurry in the seventh inning when Princeton bunched four of her seven hits and scored all three of her runs, Spalding had the Tigers eating out of his hand. He pitched a game worthy of a big league setting...
...future President must choose his Cambridge residence eon Sacramento street; this selection will gain the California vote. His room must be ice-cold in the winter and torrid in summer; and it is imperative that he rise every morning at four A. M. to remove the ashes form a half-dozen professorial furnaces. Chemistry 14b must be elected as often as possible, in order that his biographer may dwell on the painful journeys to 7.45 classes. And at least once in his strenuous college career he must attempt, unsuccessfully, to reform an institution which can be magnified into a symbol...
...white-hot star, but the product of transformations of substance deep beneath the crust. Life has been continuous through all geologic ages, and has not been periodically destroyed or renewed by catastrophes. Cold climates have probably alternated with warm ones, but there is no evidence for universal glacial or torrid stages in the earth's history, and it is unnecessary to postulate a final winter as the ultimate fate of the globe...