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Word: warmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause of such Saharan aridity is the chilly Humboldt Current, flowing up from the South Pacific. The Humboldt gives off moisture, of course, but onshore winds from it, striking the warm land, rise and expand, dropping none of their burden as rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: El Nino | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

...mascots," is it not human to have a pet, to cherish some symbolic creature? And does not the horse-play of the rival mascots and their keepers afford the spectators much good, wholesome amusement in the midst of a tense athletic struggle when opposing bloods are apt to become warm? Poor Harvard has not even the memory of a nice, docile, little bear like "Touchdown" whose presence was so helpful in 1915 when the Big Red Team administered a drubbing to the Crimson eleven. For the benefit of the agitators may we suggest for a mascot such dainty, playful animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS-- | 3/31/1925 | See Source »

...unusually warm day in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. A warm breeze blowing up from the south had raised the temperature to 60°-75°. A cold wind was approaching from the northwest. Any meteorologist could have predicted that a storm was due- but none predicted what took place. Shortly after noon, Death came from the skies. It struck first in Missouri, touched Biehle and Annapolis, hurdled the Mississippi River into Illinois, in the unaccountable way of such storms, and struck about five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30 miles, it seems to have swept on most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tornado | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...only professionals can in spring practice. Small boys seated on neighboring fences , emitted jeering sounds as the famed leaguers juggled, fumbled, panted, struck out. The weeks went by. Mockingbirds sang sweet in the cottonwood trees. The players could hear, in the evening, the strumming of banjo-strings, the warm, drowsy voices of the darkies singing Old Black Joe or perhaps Dem Golden Slippers in the hotel palm room. The jeers of the small boys changed to cries of "Bravo!" For now a different drama was daily to be seen on the dusky diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

This dancing is under the direction of Thomas, Nip, formerly of the vaudeville team of Nip and Tuck, and now with Ed Wynn in his new show "The Grab Bag." Mr. Nip is warm in his praise of the chorus dancing, declaring "they know more steps and do them better than the girls in any show in town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANGE PERSONNEL OF PUDDING CHORUS | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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