Word: chillingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frederick Doell of the German Consulate climbed the subway steps into the chill, clear Brooklyn afternoon, trudged eight blocks to a quiet, dead-end street, turned off at the second house in a row of five brick-and-frame cottages...
...Great Britain the Ministry of Supply announced that a 13-year-old schoolboy, one John Clough, had (while bedded with a chill in the infirmary) worked out a new type of air bomb which was a "first-class idea," had passed preliminary tests...
Under the lights in a South Bend, Ind. courtroom one night last week sat 17 respectable business men, numb with the same chill apprehension that narrows the eyes of every accused man when his trial jury announces it is ready with its verdict. Hulking in their midst was bluff, red-faced President William S. Knudsen of General Motors Corp., nearby the slim figure of G. M. C.'s millionaire Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. In the defendants' sanctuary around them sat 15 others: President John J. Schumann Jr., of General Motors Acceptance Corp., three of his vice...
...Boston Record and the Boston American all this fall have been head being authoritative statements that Harvard will resign and return to Maryland. Economically it was Austin Lake, veteran Boston American Columnist, who has head linesman in the stadium today. Posters along Soldiers Field fluttered to the chill Allston winds the fact that a Boston paper will publish tomorrow an article by Lake on how college football players are doped before big names...
...crowd of fifty or more students, attracted by the stirring airs of the band and by the majorette, Miss Rennie Smith of Revere, joined the parade, while scores of others watched as it went down the street. Miss Smith, scorning the chill November wind, appeared in a costume appropriate for the occasion, and lent grace and precision to the enthusiastic but somewhat nondescript band...