Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courses for freshmen at Southern Methodist University, for example, the Rev. Clarence Glover, director of intercultural education and minority affairs, tells students that melanin content generates certain emotional reactions. He suggests that those with little melanin and a Nordic background are "member- object" oriented: they rely on objects like warm clothing made of animal skins to survive. But Africans, with more melanin, he says, "have a 'member- member' orientation and value human relationships more than objects...
...marine biologists and a lot of whale lovers. Both groups came to Washington last week to speak out against an experiment involving the boom boxes. The $35 million project, set up by San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is designed to find out whether the much / feared global warming is actually occurring. At regular intervals over a period of years, scientists will fire acoustic "shots" across the water and measure the time it takes them to span great stretches of the Pacific. Since sound moves faster in warm water than in cold, researchers will get an indirect indication...
...first day of spring occurred last week. Our thoughts turned to the approach of warm weather, and with it, the sluffing off of winter garments, and with that, the unavoidability of baring some of our flesh, and with that the need to diet...
March is the cruelest month. They say it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but we all know better. March tantalizes us with its sporadic warm days, only to smother our hopes for spring with a blanket of snow the next week...
...returned to my room, crushed baseball, which had always vaulted me through March in the past, and failed me. Still, I'm not completely dismayed After all. it's not the game that has changed, just he people who run it. So as soon as the weather gets warm, I'll be out three shagging pop flies for hours of end. I just hope it doesn't snow again...