Word: coolingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally agreed that this has been a bad season for those Cambridge sportsmen whose favorite pastime is lying on the boathouse dock under the benefit and browning influence of the sun; it has been a cool and cloudy May. With the approach of examinations, however, Sol makes a belated appearance, and sculling is open once more for those who believe in a clear head as the best preparation for a mental ordeal; and once more the tannery on the Charles is doing a good business in idleness and early sunburns...
...Haugen farm bill (TIME, March 7), formally placed at the President's disposal "all the good things that do distinctly exist in the Hawkeye State." One specific good thing was the Franklin Floete estate "The Highlands." Inducements: 35 acres, fully fenced for privacy; 1,700 feet above sea-level (cool, bracing). Location: On Lake Okoboji, northern Iowa...
...curtain figuratively rises, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg stands up and moves a second reading. Correspondents note his erect, judicial poise, wonder how long he will keep cool under the barrage of jeers which Laborites will soon make hot. Racing pencils jot names of major characters and their more and more pungent speeches as the drama plays on and upward to crescendo...
...given by Professor Edgell speaking in Robinson Hall at 11 o'clock ought certainly not to be missed. It deals with a period of English architecture where many of her most beautiful buildings were conceived, and great sections of the inimitable town mansions of London were raised in the cool, dignified Georgian ideal, which remains to us today as one of the most beautiful styles of domestic architecture...
...Austen, cool, said: "I do not feel it my duty as apparently the Honorable Member does, to doubt the word of British representatives in China." Up and down England the fact was apparent that British news from China is becoming a medium for political manipulation and strife...