Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity crews may forsake the warmth of the indoor tank this afternoon and brave the chilly waters of the Charles if Charlie Whiteside considers that the ice has broken sufficiently to permit the coxes to navigate around the floes...
...crawled to the hearth. She sat on her haunches before the blazing pine-knots, shivering and whining. After a while the girl spoke to the dog and the animal slunk away from the warmth of the fire and lay down again beside the two babies. The infants cuddled against the warmth of the dog's flanks, searching tearfully for the dry teats...
...seat in the Cabinet or some executive position under the Administration. A cordial, restrained, and tactful man of the type of Dwight Morrow is needed down in Mexico City, an ambassador who can readily adjust himself to the Latin game of international relations and yet retain a warmth of sympathy and understanding of their vexatious problems...
...circuit. In practice one thermometer is buried just under the surface of the soil, the other supported in the air just above. The upper thermometer gives the air temperature, and since the buried one cannot be seen, a dial records the temperature differential between the two. From that the warmth of the ground can be computed...
...produced when warm, wet air encounters cold water, cold ground or cold air which condenses the moisture into droplets ranging from .00004 to .0008 of an inch in diameter. Thus last week's great pall was accompanied by unseasonal warmth. It was really a double blanket : an ocean fog caused by high pressure over the Atlantic and a land fog caused by low pressure over the Ohio and Mississippi valleys...