Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowance available from the poor fund. I know mothers who are supporting several children on a sum of $15 or $20 a month from the same fund. I know how they are housed and clothed and what rents they pay, but imagination balks when confronted with how they keep warm and what they...
...detestable weather they descended on Boiling Field at Washington, dropped their landing lines and prepared to spend the night. A bitter welcome they had. The wind rose and howled about their squamous sides. The landing lights upon the field were burned all night. Ground crews were turned from their warm bunks and 650 men kept standing on the icy field straining their arms to keep the blimps from tearing loose. The crews were kept in the baskets of the ships; the engines were kept running in case a forced departure should be necessary...
With the blight of the hour examination hanging heavy over Cambridge and the coming of a few warm days to make its inhabitants begin to count the weeks to June, the Vagabond began to yield to the call of the travel-book. For a wandering spirit like his, the confines of Cambridge are at times too narrow and when with a magic carpet made of a few postage stamps he can secure free passage to any part of the globe there are few better preventives for spring fever...
...Warm breezes drifted in from the nearby ocean. Hot air arose in the press. A mellow Florida moon lurked behind drifting clouds. Forty thousand men and women in a bowl of raw yellow pine-the Greeks knew how to do these things much better-looked not at the elusive moon but at a garish cone of artificial light in the bowl's bottom...
...only a memory. I am proud that I gave him his journalistic start and I like to think I was able now and then to help him with suggestions. His ability was deep, nature was considerate. He died in the midst of an unfold that promised much. His friendship, warm and stimulating was a privilege. His best memorial is TIME, which he so largely created...