Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsgatherers who incessantly harassed Prince Chichibu with questions-heedless of the fact that he was a son hastening to the bier of his father-drew for their pains only one bit of "copy" from his cool smiling lips: "I am interested in your ten-cent stores; not because of the articles for sale in them, but because of the fact that they can be sold so cheaply...
...lovely evening we pulled into Nelta, and beheld that wonderful trick of nature which the French call la grande corbeille. It is a little gem of an oasis, set deep down in a ring of enormous sand dunes, with masses of feathery date palms swaying above the cool waters of the spring. With a sigh of relief, we plunged down the slopes into the cool, jasmine-scented air to make our last camp...
...Cool slitted eyes. Calm-looking throat. Cold grey pallor...
This was elementary physics. Was it possible that Georges Claude had become senile, to annoy the august Academy of Science with piffle? Steam might operate a turbine at the Equator. But there would need be some cooling device to condense the spent steam. Where would he get ice, or cool drafts, in the tropics? He had the answer ready...
...retreat. The undergraduate is provided not only with an education, but with a mode of life, leisurely, tranquil, suitable to study and quiet thought. The men who were steeped in the beauties of the peaceful streams and meadows around Oxford or Cambridge, who passed long, quiet years in the cool courts and gardens of the colleges, who found congenial friends and tutors, read much classical and modern literature and exchanged ideas with stimulating minds, naturally here afterward the mark of those years...