Word: warmer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most of the 130,000,000 U. S. citizens mid-December is a time to make themselves comfortable for the winter: a time to muffle up in warmer clothing, to eat more warming food, to use more fuel, to read more and listen more to the radio, to look out for colds, and (for 25,000,000 of them) to put anti-freeze in the radiator of the car. Many U. S. citizens go traveling at this time of year, on warm trains across State and national borders; a few of them even go to warmer countries, with no more...
...matter of the ease or difficulty with which body heat is disposed of. In cold, dry climates the disposal is easy. This stimulates people, tends to make them grow faster, to protect them against infections. In the Dark Ages, when the Temperate Zone's climate was much warmer than now, wine grapes grew in England, cereals in Iceland, men were poor specimens-short, sluggish, easy victims of plague...
...since 1929, while people have grown bigger, world weather has grown warmer...
...sight. Records of height and weight for 65,000 university freshmen were either trending downward, or wobbling. At three universities the freshman girls have been reporting later and later first menstruations-a phenomenon which Dr. Mills associates with short stature and warm climate. In short, if world weather keeps warmer, Dr. Mills expects a shorter, sicker, slower population...
...science that relates living organisms to their environment. Reindeer were imported from Siberia into Alaska for the Eskimos' benefit. Unlike its close relative the caribou of Alaska, the Siberian reindeer is easily domesticated. It was figured that the little brown men could use the hides (much warmer than wool) for clothing, the flesh for food, sell their surpluses to help things along...