Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were so many people down at Soldiers Field Wednesday that habitual followers of the baseball team couldn't believe their eyes. Last year, it took a warm, sunny day and at least three other sports events to collect as many as 40 supporters in the stands; and now, on a cold, gray slay there were a couple of hundred people following the game into the final innings...
There is one mortal weakness in the team now. When Godin, pitching his twenty-seventh inning in five days, began to tire in the ninth, Stuffy sent some fellows out to warm up. They were a mixed lot. Barry Turner throws lefthanded; Ralph Hymans and Herbie Neal, right. None of the trio, fresh, could have done better than Godin, tired. If one of them turns out to be a pitcher who can go six innings or more, the whole baseball prospect could quickly become bathed in a soft, rosy light...
...will be expensive, yes. But the efforts of the Faculty to promote the new GE program seem likely to produce far more than half success. The Faculty is approaching the questions of personnel and incentives with an enlightenment that would warm the Special Committee's heart. The scheme of split-appointments for GE teachers means that they will be able to devote much time and energy to the new courses; and in general GE instructors are especially skilled in the art of teaching, as distinct from the art of research. In addition, small sections, stimulating term papers, and more constructive...
...Altogether," Eliot says, "it was a warm, rewarding experience, and in many ways a surprising one. Rivera is a many-sided man, and if we had had to rely only on the books and articles that have been written about him we would have missed most of Rivera. He has to be seen to be appreciated...
...allies in the western Pacific were understandably reluctant to lose the morale effect of U.S. forces on the spot. And Navy men were as sad as if they were leaving an old friend. For 27 years, the Pacific had been the Navy's ocean. They would miss its warm waters and its good weather. Said one admiral wistfully: "The Atlantic is a hard, cruel ocean...