Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixteenth Century galleys, rowed by slaves, hit 4.5 knots the first hour, 3.5 the next, 2.5 the third as the slaves became exhausted. A ship painted white is 12° cooler than one painted black. World's greatest seaports in tonnage entered and cleared are, in order, Antwerp, New York, Hamburg, London. A ship's consumption of fuel varies as the cube of the speed it attains. Derricks are named for an Elizabethan hangman named Derrick who was the first to use a single-spar gallows. Oldest ensign in use today is the Turkish, dating from...
...stand last week Plaintiff Frink, now a crack cinema critic, convulsed her court audience with an account of her life with MacArthur. Their romance began at the water-cooler in the city room of the Chicago Herald & Examiner. He proposed to her in the Old Mill at Coney Island. To save money they were married by his preacher-father. They traveled to Hollywood in one upper berth. There he lolled all day on a beach "getting healthy," lived on her salary. Finally...
...been found that cellulose molecules in cotton are chains of 3,500 links. Such long molecules could be seen under the microscope if they were fat enough. The new artificial fibre is built on the same plan but limited to 450 links. Dr. Benger declared it would make cooler and cheaper summer clothes...
...Japanese-directed government of Emperor Kang Te branded the fighting last week as "undeclared war" and seemed ready to fight at 30° below zero. In Tokyo, which was digging out from a record snowfall of twelve inches, the temperature was warmer last week than in Hsinking, but cooler-headed was the Japanese Government than the Government of Manchukuo. Japanese bluff & bluster has been loud during the years in which Bolsheviks have meekly put up with provoking frontier incidents, merely writing diplomatic notes which the Japanese Foreign Office sometimes answered, sometimes ignored. But with Soviet-Mongol forces actually showing fight...
...reason they are stronger through their abdomens. Furthermore, the average height of their crack swimmers is within three inches of six feet; they are not the diminutive Islandars of whom one generally thinks at the mention of the Japanese, but the inhabitants of the northern Isles who enjoy a cooler climate and a more rugged life...