Word: cool
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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First the effect of forests upon rainfall is to be considered. They cause the presence of a greater total amount of moisture in the air and they cool the air, thereby facilitating its precipitation, while its bed of humus will act like a sponge and absorb the percolation...
...root in College among a small but energetic group of men. It has come into increasing prominence owing to the indiscriminate and thoroughly democratic practice-field it has chosen. To play it, one needs only a pair of shoes of any sort with hardy heels, an overcoat for the cool mornings, a fairly fresh supply of alcoholic interior decoration, and a misguided sense of the humorous. With this equipment, which is within the reach of everybody, one may practice almost anywhere on the quieter streets off Massachusetts avenue between the hours of one and three A. M. Find a window...
Dartmouth showed a marked tendency to loaf offside, though no penalties were inflicted for this offence. At goal Gardner played his usual cool, game and made several excellent stops. On the whole the University men were very fast, but did not keep together...
...Princeton game. Perhaps more than ever before the result of the game will depend upon generalship on the part of Yale's quarterback-captain and Harvard's quarterback and captain. Howe is a player of remarkable sagacity and skill, and Potter is a man who keeps a cool head and runs his team so as to get the maximum amount of power out of it. The test will be to see whether the latter can stand the physical strain of the game after his injury, and whether the former can stand the mental strain, in spite of the persistent rumors...
...Austin Van Bent (genteel names!) incur exposure by a pointer dog in an attempt to evade the game laws of the state of Michigan, all incidental to trifles like lying and forgery,--which incidents are smugly reviewed by the principals when "the lounging-room of the Somerset Club was cool and pleasant." Is this art or realism...