Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday morning I usually find a portion of meat which can be sliced (it does slice when cold) for my husband's lunch-box sandwiches. That night we warm up the gravy and finish off the meat...
...Woman Who Talks to Stalin. Now she is fat and ugly; but once she was slim and (her friends remember) beautiful. Once she was warmhearted, shy and full of pity for the oppressed, of whom she was one. Now she is cold as the frozen Danube, bold as a boyar on his own rich land and pitiless as a scythe in the Moldavian grain...
...proved that conventional liquid-cooled engines were impractical for such climates. It put Continental, the biggest maker of air-cooled engines for tanks in World War II, to work. Jack Reese claimed-and Army Ordnance backed him up-that the engine will operate efficiently in desert heat or Arctic cold, and weighs only one-third as much as liquid-cooled jobs of equivalent horsepower. Developed by Continental Engineers Carl F. Bachle and Edward A. Hulbert, the new engine is simple in design and requires only a small stock of spare parts...
Editor Stout, once fashion editor of Good Housekeeping, had worked on new magazines before: she was one of three researchers on year-old TIME in 1924. When Kaleidoscope first approached her, she turned it down cold "because they were attempting the impossible." Then she decided to try the impossible. She spent her first three weeks getting together a staff, mostly from retail stores. From June 21, when the first color pictures were taken, until last week, Kaleidoscope's Chrysler Building offices were a mad henhouse. Typical of the fast & furious work was a 24-page portfolio of Paris clothes...
Christina Stead's prose is as hard and cold as a cake of ice. A sharp-eyed Australian now living in the U.S., Miss Stead specializes, with the murderous calm of a hangman slightly bored by his job, in dissecting egotists and connivers. One of her better novels, House of All Nations, was a long, superbly documented description of the world of high finance, which viciously satirized the European big money and led some critics to compare her, rather prematurely, to Balzac...