Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 2,775 students passed the warm months in Cambridge, studying for hour exams and rushing to Lamont to keep cool. Of the total, approximately 1,440 were from Harvard and Radcliffe. The whole enrollment was an increase of 125 over last year...
Into the Unknown. The transformation at Douglas Aircraft goes far deeper than quantity. The problem of building today's vastly more complicated planes has turned Douglas engineers, of necessity, into inventors who range far beyond aeronautics. For example, they had to turn out new type of refrigeration to cool the cockpit and entire fuselage of the supersonic X3; otherwise, the friction heat at 1,800 m.p.h. would kill the pilot and melt the metal. To whip the problem of windshield fogging at great speeds, they are helping devise a water-repellent coating which prevents fogging for long periods...
Hasui Kawase's temple yard has something of Old Master Hiroshige's subtle patterning and cool sweetness. But its firmly rectangular composition and deep perspective have Italian
Most of the world's undergraduates last week were still on vacation. But on one of the world's largest campuses, some 3,000 were taking final exams. From Bremen, in cool north Germany, to Asmara, high on an African plateau, American servicemen and a handful of civilian employees trooped to their classrooms, sweated over questions that ranged from literature to logistics. These students were members of the University of Maryland's College of Special and Continuation Studies...
Gabriel, a Denver-born concert pianist, hit on his "music-can-be-fun" formula six years ago. He was faced with a particularly bored, antagonistic ten-year-old. Said Gabriel: "Dorothy, what would you do if you were in my shoes?" Said Dorothy: "Keep cool, Mr. Gabriel, keep cool." But the conversation apparently purged a bit of Dorothy's hostility; she began to show interest. After that, teaching her was no problem...