Word: warmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of the ease or difficulty with which body heat is disposed of. In cold, dry climates the disposal is easy. This stimulates people, tends to make them grow faster, to protect them against infections. In the Dark Ages, when the Temperate Zone's climate was much warmer than now, wine grapes grew in England, cereals in Iceland, men were poor specimens-short, sluggish, easy victims of plague...
...science that relates living organisms to their environment. Reindeer were imported from Siberia into Alaska for the Eskimos' benefit. Unlike its close relative the caribou of Alaska, the Siberian reindeer is easily domesticated. It was figured that the little brown men could use the hides (much warmer than wool) for clothing, the flesh for food, sell their surpluses to help things along...
Floyd Stahl's Varsity nine is still looking for its first Eastern Intercollegiate League victory and is not apt to find it in Princeton Saturday afternoon unless warmer weather loosens up Harvard efforts at the plate. One lone run was all to that Coach Stahl's men were able to manufacture in their last two home appearances against Tufts and Boston University throughout 18 innings of play...
...game since then, with Belmont Hill last week, showed more than ever the need for improved fielding and a tighter defense. This will probably improve with warmer weather...
...Phelan and Bud Waldstein, who have thus far shared the pitching duties, show signs of promise which should materialize when warmer weather irons out their early season kinks...