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Word: warmers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ceiling fans. There is little point to heating a house if most of the warmth wafts overhead: in a well-insulated room the air near the ceiling can be anywhere from 10° to 25° warmer than at ankle level. Ceiling fans can reduce heating costs sharply, from 25% to 35%, simply by swishing the over-head reservoir of warm air down to where the people are. Designs range from units with plain wooden blades to brass and even iron-scrollwork extravaganzas that recall the decor of turn-of-the-century ice cream parlors. Top-of-the-line ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Gizmos To Save Energy | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

There was a lot of banging and crashing outside the vault, but we had no way of knowing what it was. Our room was now mostly quiet. It was getting warmer and warmer; the first real thoughts began to enter your mind that you could die here, that somebody was trying to cook us to death-quite literally. The link to reality was Dixie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Could Die Here | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...constant juxtaposition of styles would have worked less smoothly without Meyer's capable cast. David Warner creates a fine Stevenson: tightly disciplined, revealing his menace only through eyes that constantly shift and smiles that fade too quickly. Malcolm McDowell gives a broader performance as the warmer, more human Wells; from his wide-eyed appraisal of a Hare Krishna troupe to his relief at recognizing tea on the menu of "that Scottish place" MacDonald's, his visionary inventor is quite appealing. He perpetually exhibits what Amy calls a "little-boy-lost look", aided by his slight figure that contrasts nicely with...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Ripping Good Time | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...action...Eddie Weinfurtner and Bennie Erulkar will tend the twines...The booters' record now stands at 1-2-1 (0-1 in the Ivies)...Their next game is Friday night under the lights and on astroturf at Cornell...URI visits the Business School field next Wednesday--hopefully, in slightly warmer weather...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Booters Knot Amherst, 1-1 | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...become poetical. There is a tension between the events described and the manner in which they are told. In one particularly moving passage, Haviaras describes eating a sparrow, and reaches an almost mystical communion with it. He writes, "And then it was my mouth embracing the sparrow. I was warmer, my throat was warmer, as if I had taken in his voice, and had been singing with it for hours...

Author: By Kim Bendheim, | Title: Outlasting Death | 8/3/1979 | See Source »

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