Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With due respect to all mental giants, I cannot help thinking after reading of Cyberneticist Wiener [TIME, Dec. 27] that we "of mediocre attainments or less" can still provide an insight to the value of the human brain which is fearfully lacking in Professor Wiener's cold analysis...
...half hour he gave legislators enough work for six solid months, reaffirmed every campaign promise. To Democrats who gave him scattered applause 30 times during the speech, to Republicans who listened in cold silence, he earnestly declared: "It is absolutely essential that your President have the complete cooperation of the Congress...
...huddled over it with his wife and five-year-old daughter. For hours, as the storm howled, they coughed with smoke and fed their flame. But gradually the numbing cold sapped their strength. As they sat snuggled together with their arms around each other, the fire went out. The wind blew fine snow through every crack in the car, heaped it tightly around them. Thus blanketed, they died...
...this week the local papers have been meaning that the B.C. team was hopelessly crippled, that they would be cold most for the first merely average team that came along. Last night's game proved otherwise. Instead of fretting about his injured players and trying to construct three lines and two defenses, Eagle coach Snooks Kelley merely reduced the number of skaters. He operated with just two lines and alternated three defensemen--those nine players showed themselves to be probably the best collegiate hockey team in the East...
...after Christmas that the first menacing signs appeared. The snow waned under furious rains, fought back for one cold night, and then slipped down the drains. For once, the Almighty had come to the rescue of James M. Curley, and had taken away what He had put there. But stranger things were in store: the thermometers climbed to the fifties, resort owners tore their hair, and each succeeding day brought a strange bright glare to the usually gray skies...