Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British public, the Manchester Guardian's Russophile Correspondent Alexander Werth reported the Lemin lecture with warm overtones of "You see-they may still get to like us." Any criticisms of the Empire the professor may have made were offered "more in sorrow than in anger," explained Werth. "Without explicitly saying that the British Empire was a good thing, Dr. Lemin suggested [that] it was a complicated political organism which was evolving in the right direction...
...that some mysterious property in the air affects people's health. Many a European surgeon avoids operations on days when the south wind blows (some think hemorrhages and serious clots are more common on those days). In Alpine sanatoriums. tuberculosis patients are said to get worse when a warm, moist wind is blowing. Allergists are sure that hay fever and some other allergic diseases are airborne...
...temperature, humidity, etc.), Curry decided that the health-governing material in air is a mysterious gas he calls "aran." Aran's concentration in the air, Curry computed, varies with the time of day (it is low at night and high in midafternoon, and with the weather (low in warm south winds, high in cool north winds). He is pretty certain that varying the concentration of aran can increase or decrease inflammation, start bleeding, and produce all sorts of spasms...
Norwegian and Russian scientists believe that the Gulf Stream, Europe's warm-water heating system, is flowing faster and farther into the north, tempering the climate, driving back the pack ice. In 1909, the Spitsbergen coalfields had an annual shipping period of only 95 mid-season days. In 1946, the last ship got safely away...
Perhaps this time the glaciers are shrinking in earnest, looking toward an age, many million years in the future, when the earth will be warm all the way to the poles. More likely, this is only the latest "interglacial period...