Word: warms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four dignified law school students sat upon the green grass in front of Langdell Hall yesterday at noon. They basked in the warm sun, yet they seemed to ignore it, for they were intent upon the work before them. Their pipes were held clenched in their teeth, removing them from time to time, only as if to punctuate an unspoken sentence. Gravity was written all over their faces, as they stared fixedly at the ground before them...
...Griffin was alone in the fields, his little pack across his shoulder. It was a clear night, warm and silent, and the full moon the cynosure of all, and like the delicate, powdered nape of a woman it seemed to radiate an evening perfume, enticing the eye, cloying the nostril...
...rearmament, is iron ore from Basque mines. And Welsh farmers have long had a private arrangement with Basque potato growers. From carefully tended fields they ship high-priced seed potatoes to Bilbao twice a year, take back in exchange mature food potatoes, grown in Spain's warm and dry climate...
Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
...Moines, in the 28th Drake Relays, there were 39 events, 184 schools represented, 2,000 competitors. In the 43rd Penn Relays there were 76 events. 489 schools, 3,000 competitors. Drake had a queen (Frances Rather), warm weather the first day, cold the second. Penn had no queen (officials thought it undignified), cold weather the first day, warm the second. Drake had six 1936 Olympic trackmen, no Olympic champions. Penn had ten, of whom two (Spec Towns and Johnny Woodruff) were champions. Drake crowds totaled 20,000. Penn crowds totaled 50,000. Feature event at Drake was an invitation...