Word: warms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only polar region in the U. S. In the basin of the Yukon it is warm. There are from 70 to 100 days in the growing season. But over the mountains to the north there are rarely more than 40 days in the year in which there is no killing frost. Not only is it a polar land, it is almost a desert as well. It has less than ten inches of rainfall a year?about the same amount as Arizona or Nevada. There are no trees, only a very little stunted vegetation...
...latter rose, supported by one Major Henning, and another Reinhold Walle, and indignantly challenged Dr. Kraemer to a duel. But the doctor would not fight, he offered to repeat his statements outside the Reichstag in order that the trio could sue him for libel, if they still "felt warm under the collar," and insisted upon revenge. While the doctor was making this offer someone placed a brace of water pistols near the Speaker's platform in such a position that they could be seen by the whole House. When the House did see them, it cheered and hooted with...
...Outsider is an exceptional play, raised above a clinical discussion by the warm emotion of a girl's adolescent libido, but perspiring a little with theatrical laboring. Katherine Cornell gives an extraordinarily balanced portrayal, making the proper suggestion of a maimed butterfly fluttering its wings. Her acting swings the real focus from the man to the maid. She washes from the part any taint of carnalism. Her varied, rainbow performance stamps her as the greatest young player of her age. Lionel Atwill is forceful, explodes with the splendid precision of dynamite. But at times he is too conscious...
...shell got out onto the Charles yesterday. The float, which was needed at Weld Boathouse in order to launch the shells on the open water there, remained fast in the ice in front of Newell. The cold of Thursday night had kept it frozen in solidly, and despite the warm rays of the sun yesterday, it could not be moved. The work will be continued and undoubtedly the crews will be on the water Monday...
Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, arrived in Rome after a visit to the Holy Land. The Osservatore Romana, Vatican journal, commented upon the warm reception accorded to the Cardinal in Jerusalem. "This attests two things: First, the prestige which accompanies a Cardinal of the Roman Church wherever he goes, and second, the great value Palestine attaches to the interest America takes in her recent new destiny. With Cardinal O'Connell on his pilgrimage went the good wishes of millions of Americans." Said Cardinal O'Connell: "There is darkness in the Near East, where the peoples...