Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never in the memory of a living New Englander had there been such an Indian summer. Day after day, week after week, a warm haze hung over the states of the northeastern U.S. Maple and sumac painted the hills and shed bright, crackling drifts of leaves. Offshore, the sea was blue. Streams ran gently or dried up, and at dusk the smell of dust and wood smoke perfumed the air. No rainclouds obscured the sun or the bright autumn moon. Then, last week, nature exacted her tribute...
Montreal's McGill University Observatory found that the city had an average temperature of 57° over the first 24 days of October, three degrees above the record. Quebec hay-fever sufferers complained that the warm days had brought back their sniffles. Violets bloomed in Westmount. It was dry too-the fourth driest October on record. There had been only .85 inches of rain all month in Montreal...
...least one Canadian was sure that the warm spell would continue for a while. Out on the Piapot Indian Reserve, northeast of Regina in Saskatchewan, Chief Abel Watetch could see things invisible to most observers. Muskrat houses this year are not tall, he said, but their walls are thick. Rosebushes have lots of buds, growing close to the ground. Jackrabbits so far have only tiny patches of white on the tips of their ears and on their forelegs. The chief's solemn prediction: six more weeks of mild weather, then a moderately mild winter with not much snow...
...Newell (though glad to encourage his oil-company backers) was more excited about the theoretical aspects of his discovery. Rarely had paleontologists found a marine fauna that was practically identical on both sides of the equator. Obviously, he speculated, there was no tropical belt of warm water in those days to check the spread of temperate sea life...
...that catalogue, says Dr. Lin, does not do Su Tungpo full justice. Says he: "I can perhaps best sum it up by saying that the mention of Su Tungpo always elicits an affectionate and warm, admiring smile in China." With an affectionate and admiring smile on his own face, he has written an unaffected biography of an unaffected great...