Word: cools
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...charming. The fault which some people have found with the '60 window, of its admitting too little light, cannot here apply. It is pale in tone compared to the window just named, and lets in as much light as the weak casement at its side. It is a cool-looking window and pleasant to look at in the hot summer days. The light passing through its pale green hues seems to bring a suggestion of cool green waters, transparent and flecked with foam. Mr. Lafarge is here at his best...
...other ministers who also show "the vast political influence of the New England clergy in the agitations of those times" are Jonathan Mayhew and Charles Chauncey. Jonathan Mayhew was "in the pulpit, a sort of tribune of the people." Charles Chauncey was "a man of leonine heart, of strong, cool brain, of uncommon moral strength. He bore a great part in the intellectual strife of the revolution; but before that strife opened, he bad moulded deeply the thought of his time, both by his living speech and by his publications." Coming now nearer to '76 we meet the brothers, Samuel...
...saves his strength, and is at the same time a winning game to play. There is not a doubt that a volleyer has an enormous advantage, and in a match, say of five sets, you will see the back-player flushed and exhausted, and the volleyer comparatively as cool as a cucumber. Ergo, which, if you can do both, is the best game? The question is not worth asking...
...condition of the American universities of the small pay received by the professors: He contends that a man who has the stuff of a good professor in him, or, as "N. N." calls it, "the grit of spontaneous scholarship," will not allow the smallness of his salary to "cool his ardor or check his enthusiasm," and he points to the vigor and industry of the German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality of university teaching. Unfortunately, this illustration overlooks the fact that professors, like other people, are influenced largely...
...their victorious nine on their shoulders, the upper classmen separating and cheering as they passed. The class collected in front of Stoughton and cheered each member of the nine. All the classes gave three hearty cheers for Captain Phillips who had throughout proved himself an efficient captain and whose cool playing has steadied the nine in critical places...