Word: cool
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local treatments such as belladonna plasters over the kidneys and ice bags over the vertebrae were enthusiastically recommended. A worthy Ph.D. pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from what was called respiratory gymnastics to such Spartan measures as cauterization of the prostate gland in males and bone-breaking without discrimination...
...fullback, is the most improved man on the squad. He spent his Sophomore year in the shadow of Captain Johansen, whose understudy he was, but this fall, given a new position, he has proved himself one of the outstanding players on the team. His chief asset is a cool head which offsets his lack of experience...
This clear headed, cool--yes, quite embarrassingly logical--"rising generation," Mr. McLaughlin, has read the history its fathers made and weighed the old catch-words. "Hysterical inhibitions" seem to me often more obvious in the appeal of "leaders of thought" than in the cautious, let's-look-before-we-leap (this time) discussions of ont only Harvard but all other graduates, and of the un-"exposed to education" young men in our streets...
From 1933 on, Göring, a barrel of explosive black powder, and Milch, a cool steel machine, planned and produced. They built a carefully integrated but decentralized plant, with 1,700 factory units scattered all over Germany, most of them far from the hot French border. They established a military training course so brutally stepped up that only the fittest survive. They designed a simple series of warplanes, sensibly sticking to a few constantly modified basic types...
Authors Brockway & Weinstock's fluently expressed prejudices will give a jolt or two to dyed-in-tradition music-lovers. For them Chopin is "the most truly original of all composers"; bob-haired, ecclesiastic Liszt "the most tremendous musical failure of the 19th Century." Biggest jolt: a cool reference to sentimental Melodist Tschaikowsky as "the greatest symphonist of the 19th Century-after Beethoven." Of such critical jabs, close-collaborating Authors Brockway & Weinstock say simply: "If they start a controversy . . . so much the better. We think the future will bear them...