Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disagreement over the relative merits of the Harlow November "system" and Yale material may be waxing warm by the Thursday before the sixty-fourth meeting between the Blue and Red, but no Entry bull session will outglow the airwaves of WHRV that evening...
Huntington may be best remembered for his theories about the influence of climate on civilization. He argued that as civilization develops, it moves toward colder regions. The earliest civilized people hardly ventured away from the warm lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia; their technique of life could not cope with even a mild winter. The Greeks and Romans knew more about battling winter, and benefited from the mental stimulus of the north Mediterranean climate. After the invention of the chimney and other body warmers, civilization throve best in North Europe and America, where the cold, changeable climate kept minds alert...
...will fix that. And he does. He gets me a grey pin-striped suit, double-breasted, with shoulders that I can grab in my fist and make look like a football. The Editor doesn't forget anything. He finds me a tie that leaves me as flat as warm beer, and then insists I put a ruptured duck in the lapel of the suit, and find a shirt that isn't button-down. The hat I wear looks like something out of the Front Page...
...Manhattan dinner honoring Al Smith's memory this week came warm, hopeful words from Winston Churchill on the state of the world. He said...
While no one offers to predict New England skies three days in advance, cycle enthusiasts nevertheless think continuation of the present warm and sunny weather may give one of the 15 to 20 entrants a chance to snap the 28:30 minute record set by fleet John H. Potter '45 back...