Word: cool
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Heard on the street - "Why, that man was your chum at college, and you were always inseparable, now you pass him with a cool bow. Has any dispute occurred?" "Oh, no; we dearly love each other still, but it would not look well to show it. I have become a doctor, and he has become an undertaker...
...striking contrast with the above is the conduct of our Boston papers toward us; they pass over Yale's mode of playing with a cool indifference; they say that Yale played an unfair game, but they simply mention the fact casually, and do not even take the trouble to condemn such play. It is not only on this occasion, but on many similar ones that our Boston dailies have shown their absolute indifference to Harvard interests. This would not be so noticeable but for the fact that several of the New York papers show enough interest in college matters...
...main hall at the gymnasium is too often too cool for the comfort of those exercising...
...Cambridge letter to the Providence Journal says: "It is a long, steep pathway to the beetling heights of Cambridge culture, but once there, the air is deliciously cool and fresh, the view superb, and the opportunity to look down upon one's fellow-men not only unparalleled but irresistible." The same letter intimates that in Cambridge society Harvard students are regarded as cyphers...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25, 1. A. M. For New England, fair weather, cool northwesterly winds, with rising barometer during the day, followed by warmer southwest winds...