Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democracy" dictated for China by Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung got under way in Peiping. To the Red capital from Hong Kong and elsewhere came a motley group of anti-Kuomintang fellow travelers. The Communist masters dubbed them "democratic personages," decked them in cool blue summer uniforms, then directed them to a preparatory conference for a "people's congress" and "coalition government." Best guess as to the Red timetable: by late August the "New Democracy" would be ready for formal launching and a bid for the world's diplomatic recognition...
...Schmidts mapping project of the entire sky is expected to take four years. Each little patch will be photographed twice: once with a red filter and once with no filter. On the red plates the hot blue stars will appear to lose some of their brightness; the cool red stars will not. By comparing the two plates, astronomers can get some idea of the temperature of the stars that appear on them...
...down to a 30-week season, except in such places as California and Florida, some install portable electric heaters in each car. This season an engineer has stepped forward with the last word-an air-conditioning scheme that will keep the cars not only cozy against wintry blasts but cool and dry in the August heat...
Summer school students of both sexes will get a chance to cool off together in the Indoor Athletic Building swimming pool every weekday afternoon from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Summer School officials announced yesterday...
Yankee Spark. Henrich really took over as the Yankees' leader two weeks after the opening. It was a tight moment, and Pitcher Joe Page had been summoned from the bullpen to cool off the aroused Boston Red Sox. As Page began the long trek to the mound, Henrich stepped up to him and said: "You hold it and I'll win it." Page did his part. Two innings later, with the Yanks trailing, 3-2, Henrich picked up a bat and smashed a home run into the rightfield seats, with one man on base, to win the game...