Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climatic struggle revealed that Coach Horween has welded together two backfields of equal power. Harvard's offensive can be maintained at high speed with Wood, Devens, Mays and Potter ready to relieve the starting ball carriers. Wood was outstanding in his role of cool and capable passer, heady signal caller, and unerring dropkicker. Devens and Mays were serious running threats to the Army while Potter's interfering and defensive work were sound. White, who substituted for the injured Harper, proved to be a valuable player...
...more fashionable nowadays than discovering blots on the scutcheons of heroes is the psychologist practice of explaining, with cool "scientific" detachment, how heroic eccentricities and even genius were conditioned by the physiology of the case...
...Southern Pacific is proud of many things, of its new cars kept cool in Southwestern deserts by special aluminum paint and anti-actinic window glass, of its freight service, so efficient that a carload of potted lilies recently went through without a pot broken or a single flower crushed. But its hospitals have long been its especial pride. Most roads maintain a staff of nurses and doctors with emergency stations at important terminals. Only three roads have their own hospitals: the Illinois Central, at Chicago, the Central of Georgia, at Savannah, and the Southern Pacific, at San Francisco (250 beds...
...long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There has not been time for the dull courses to reveal themselves and exams in the hard ones seem far away. The refreshing tang of the first cool days has not yet lost its novelty...
...director of its astrophysical observatory) to compare the sun's heat at Mount Brukkaros with its heat at Table Mountain, Cal., and at Montezuma, Chile, where the Institution has other solar stations. Last week Dr. Abbot informed Betty Jean's father that he would go to comparatively cool Washington and work in his astrophysical laboratory. Mr. Greeley could go to Table Mountain. On the way to relieve them from their servitude to Science were Mr. & Mrs. L. O. Sordahl and Mr. A. G. Frolland...