Word: warmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incubator eggs might hatch better if less attention were paid to uniform temperature and more to reproducing actual conditions beneath a setting bird. That idea occurred to N. A. Meshcheryakov of Moscow's Zoological Park. Eggs beneath a setting mother are several degrees warmer on top than at the bottom. Every time the bird leaves the nest for food or exercise the eggs cool off a little...
...triple threat halfback star who has been injured since the start of the season is still on the bench and will not be used except in case of great emergency. Coach Blaik has received some encouragement this week because of the fine showing of Jim Aieta, a confirmed bench warmer for the last two years under the former regime who at last will be given a real opportunity to prove his ability. This lad Aieta a hard-running shifty back whose long runs and brilliant playing were a feature of the Virginia contest, will bear careful watching by the Harvard...
...Good Will, Passion's Pilgrims) will have little difficulty in picking up the threads of the story, will be relieved to see that the parallel narratives have now begun to intertwine, making fewer different threads to follow. Mme. de Champcenais' timid affair with Sammécaud gets warmer. Haverkamp, the ambitious businessman with no resources but his brains, puts through his first big deal. Young Student Jerphanion, horrified by the Paris slums, decides to join the socialists. Murderer Quinette, still undiscovered, finds out from a detective why his crime was never reported in the newspapers...
During one of the warmer afternoons this week a long and exciting tennis game was being fought over on the Jarvis courts. The score ran to deuce several times, but each time the advantage could not be turned to a winning point. At last the server put over a fast one to clinch the match. At this one of out older and more sedate graduate students looked up "Whose game?" he queried...
...meetings. It was chiefly to draw brothers together at the dining table that the fraternities in the late 1920s canvassed their alumni, put up fine new houses at prices ranging from $150,000 to $250,000, most with sizeable mortgages. The university administration beamed on this move toward a warmer campus social life...