Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scalp burns. Moreover, before sailing from Mombasa, Poppa had rushed off into the bush as a volunteer firefighter. There he got badly burned again but never said much about it, because by then "people would have thought I was hamming it." Now on the mend under Spain's warm spring sun, Hemingway, planning to head for his Cuban home next month, had a welcome assurance for his readers: "The doctors said the head injury did not affect the section of the brain I use to write with." In Hollywood, Entrepreneur Elliott Roosevelt announced that, after rummaging through some...
Defensive Lassitude. In warm weather or during exercise, the evaporation of sweat does most of the final cooling, but the body cannot produce an unlimited amount of sweat, and if it is forced to do so, there are various ill effects. So the natural reaction of the overheated human is to sit still until his temperature falls. In the long run, this defensive lassitude lowers the cultural level...
Conditions were good for an 11:30 a.m. race. A warm sun shone on the slightly undulating lake water, which was licked into small waves by the moderate headwind, but was not choppy enough to make rowing difficult...
...intensely interested in the house since his appointment as Master in 1941. Reserved informality characterizs Hoadley's attitude: he likes at once the easy formality of sherry parties and the complete informality of chatting with students over a cup of coffee. Leverett students think of their housemaster as a warm, friendly man, who knows every student in the House...
...Dean of Women, Elizabeth B. Kelly, is a warm, realistic woman who approaches her problem in a highly practical way. She came to Middlebury after World War II, during which she had to protect 21 girls from over a thousand men on a base in New Guinea. Noting that a diploma is only so good as a school's reputation, she says, "We of my sex want the privileges of a double standard without any of the responsibilities...