Word: torridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Excavators in the torrid and semi-torrid zones of the earth are in the full swing of another season. A chronicle of their recent doings must mention the following (TIME...
...formidable prospect, and only one defense can be suggested. The spell of the tropics must be played up to its full value. Ukuleles and guitars must be brought out in force to greet the conquering heroine; the weatherman must be prevailed upon to remind her of torrid suns, and perhaps that subtle nostalgia that worked on Ganguin. Stevenson, and the other South Seamen will call her back to Papua for peaceful sovereignty where she has already conquered...