Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Miss Bloomfield is not at all lacking, than to present any important musical ideas. What few of the latter it does possess were certainly not brought out in any satisfactory manner; the performance was as hard and dry as it well could be, and entirely lacking in any musical warmth of feeling whatever. The notes were all executed in a very business-like manner: but beyond that there were none of the characteristic of good piano playing. The taking Hungarian dances by Brahm proved to be the most popular number on the programme, in response to the enthusiastic applause...
...your paper, "Proctor" attempts to prove that the temperature of Mass. Was comfortable during the examination in History 2, because he did not open any windows. If there is no heat in an old building like Massachusetts and the temperature without is but a little above zero, the warmth of the room is hardly suitable for an examination, even if the windows are not open. Besides, the cold seems much more severe to a man who is sitting on a hard bench, cramped and motionless, than it does to another man who has the opportunity of walking about and thus...
...direction of the wind." The temperature comfortable to the majority of persons is given as 68 Fahrenheit, and open fire-places, grates or open stoves are recommended as the best heating apparatus. "Any of these," he says, "ensures almost perfect ventilation, as well as supplies a pleasant and healthy warmth." Again as to sleeping rooms we find "the air should not be very cold. In winter either the sleeping room should open into a warmer room or a low fire should be kept up in the room, preferably in an open stove...
...must do more. We must work. This spirit is spreading all over the country, and is especially growing strong towards the West. Thousands of dollars are spent annually to carry elections in the interest of liquor men, and on almost every corner discussions of temperance questions arise, the warmth of which reminds one of the old slavery wrangles in ante vellum days. Various laws are now presented in the different states, some tending to protect the business and others looking towards its abolition. It is safe to say that never before were there so many points under dispute upon which...
...chance to run through this article may, as they follow the description of Paris university life, imagine themselves for the time being over here taking a cursory retrospective view of their respective lives at Harvard. They will soon, I think, begin to notice how rich and full of warmth is the coloring of Harvard life as they picture it to themselves...