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...sacrifices in men and materiel. The implication is that the game is not worth the candle and that the only thing to do is to give up the Spanish Zone in Morocco or govern peaceably. At all events Foreign Minister Senor Santiago Alba greeted Don Luis Silvela with great warmth, but the Minister of War's greeting was conspicuous by its lack of good feeling...
...soot-laden white mist of great weight. Owing to the warmth of the ground and the consequent lighter pressure the fog descends from its chilly couch in the skies-that is, when there is no wind to blow it away-and covers the earth until the heat gradually dissipates it. Were it not for the soot, the mist would probably be dissipated by the surface heat as it descended...
...years of warmth...
...even greater degree in the future. The first bill of their repertory season consists of a one-act curtain-raiser, The Chip Woman's Fortune, followed by Oscar Wilde's Salome. The Chip Woman's Fortune, a mild little comedy, is played with extraordinary verisimilitude?with delightful warmth and grace. Salome, of course, is a more pretentious production and not quite such a successful one. Sydney Kirkpatrick made an admirably repulsive Herod and Solomon Bruce as the flea-bitten Jokanaan was noteworthy. Salome (Evelyn Freer) danced circumspectly?in fact she was oddly reminiscent of the Daily Dozen, at times...
...high," continued Mr. Clayton, "in the temperate zone the winters are colder than normal, while the summers are characterized by high temperatures. This may seem anomalous, but is easily explained. During the winter, for instance, the sun is above the tropical belt and tends to increase the warmth in that zone. Under this higher temperature the atmosphere there expands and overflows into the temperate belts, and immediately currents from the north are set in motion to restore the equilibrium in this region of diminished pressure. Consequently, during a winter of high solar radiation, the temperate zones are subject to continued...