Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substances deposited on the ground disperse as scent particles. If the ground is too cold, the rate is too slow for the keenest nose; if too warm, the scent is soon all gone. Best condition for a detectable but lingering scent seemed to be moderately warm soil with slightly cooler air above...
Chief critical interest in The Plough & the Stars was its comparison with Mr. O'Casey's fantastic Within the Gates, also playing in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 5). Consensus of cooler heads was that O'Casey's earlier realism had cards and spades over his later flights into the realm of theatrical fancy...
Further evidence of modernity as an underlying principle of the work is to be found in the removal of the antiquated bottle water-cooler which used to stand in a corner just outside the President's office and in the installation in its stead of one of the latest type electrically refrigerated water-coolers. To quench their thirst now, President Conant and his office force drink city instead of spring water...
...fresh note rather than a new one is struck in Poet Engle's writings. Enthusiasts may compare him to Whitman, to Sandburg, to Frost, but cooler heads will wait for more achievement before upping him above MacLeish or Jeffers. A note of challenge to defeat, however, augurs well for the future. "Complaint to Sad Poets" sounds the battle cry: Will you never be done with barking at the moon? . . . The terrier bitch that whelped its litter today Under the barn where the dirt is moist and dark Shames and defies you with the quiet logic Of life that works...
...Brooklyn Navy Yard finished refurbishing an old 3O-ft. gig, fastened two swivel chairs in its stern cockpit, and installed a water cooler between them. When President Roosevelt boards the Houston at the end of this month the gig will be swinging from the cruiser's davits. ready as a fishing boat whenever the President feels inclined to cast a line overboard on his holiday journey to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Pacific Coast, Hawaii...