Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their old home at Independence, Mo., make it the summer White House; everyone but the President hoped to get there in early June. There, in the big, plain, high-ceilinged rooms, they planned to resume their old, informal way of life during the hot months. (Independence would be no cooler than Washington.) Said Margaret: "I just want to spend the summer sleeping." But there was already evidence that things would be a little different-motorists drove down Independence's North Delaware St. to gaze curiously as painters worked on the cupolaed 80-year-old frame house...
...people in the hot soft light of the afternoon, in taxicabs, along the streets, in offices and bars and factories. In a Cleveland barbershop, 60-year-old Sam Katz was giving a customer a shave when the radio stabbed out the news. Sam Katz walked over to the water cooler, took a long, slow drink, sat down and stared into space for nearly ten minutes. Finally he got up and painted a sign on his window: "Roosevelt Is Dead." Then he finished the shave. In an Omaha poolhall, men racked up their cues without finishing their games, walked...
...Cooler Sweaters. In Pittsburgh, a matron sent sweaters for the native girls living on the Pacific island where her husband was stationed, was horrified to hear that the girls had made them cooler by cutting two big holes in the front...
...their bones harden sooner; they have fewer red corpuscles and a faster pulse; they are more emotional (more active thyroid glands); they mature more rapidly. A girl sleeps more than a boy, needs less food, has a lower metabolism rate, is warmer in winter (because of better insulation) and cooler in summer...
...hardest-won Pacific island came last week from TIME Correspondent Robert Martin: "Peleliu is a horrible place. The heat is stifling and rain falls intermittently -the muggy rain that brings no relief, only greater misery. The coral rocks soak up heat during the day and it is only slightly cooler at night. Marines are in the finest possible physical condition, but they wilted on Peleliu. By the fourth day there were as many casualties from heat prostration as from wounds...