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...last fifty years Boston's average winter temperature has dropped only 1 1/2 degrees, which is the equivalent of the weather 30 miles to the south in 1888. The last half-century's coldest winter, in fact, was only five years ago, when the mercury dropped to 21 below zero, At the meteorological station on Blue Hill there is, from New Bedford in 1812, a record which shows that our forefathers did not have any more snow and ice than we do today...
Distilling vitamins requires a very high vacuum. Scientists do not expect to make a perfect vacuum, any more than they expect to reach the cold of absolute zero, but they try to get as close to perfection as possible...
Just after the war, however, Harvard sent its team to the Rose Bowl. This team had practiced in zero weather, made the trip, and played in the heat. But they won, 7-6, from the unbeaten Pacific Conference champions, although regulars on the Crimson team lost 15 pounds on the average...
...course the most obvious alibi is that Dartmouth had to play under weather conditions far different than those at home. To practice in snow storms and zero weather, then make a tiring train trip, and then to play with the thermometer hovering near 70, is not easy. Little wonder that Coach Earl Blaik's line collapsed toward...
...down by carbon monoxide, is shown by the point that if he had fallen on the table where he was sitting instead of on the floor, the cool clean air would never have reached his poisoned lungs. Then came his fight with fumes and cold. Cold of eighty below zero which he must endure or else run the risk of the deadly smoke from the stove. Yet he never told Little America of his plight for fear they might lose their lives trying to save him during the winter storms...