Word: cools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Africa, General Jan Smuts, been defeated by General Herzog and the labor leader, Robert J. Creswell, representing the secessionist faction, the outcome would undoubtedly have meant withdrawal from the Empire. General Smuts, however, by his decisive victory has assuredly prevented any such occurrence and has shown England that a cool-headed and self-respecting people can be relied upon in such an internal crisis...
Mental control, the ability to keep cool and remember the essential fundamentals of execution in the excitement of the duel, is an asset learned in fencing, an asset that inevitably must be mastered by the foilsman and one that proves invaluable in life, whatever career a man pray choose. The struggle for nerve-control, self-restraint on the mat, is as vital in winning matches as is the actual handling of the steel in combat...
...conceit themselves? A or Anne, may be chaste but clumsy; B, or Betsy delicate-minded but dumpy and dowdy; C, active and fond of dancing but ugly; F, feminine in feeling but fat and fubsy. Must they therefore cover up? Must only Grace, Beauty and Agility go cool whilst Fat swelters and Fubsy faints? If so may there not be an exclusiveness in Polka as in Piety--and a monopoly of nakedness as of righteousness--a Socialism that is Selfishness at Bottom...
...Duane '23 is the type of high-strung temperamental player; at times exhibiting remarkable brilliancy and then again sinking into wild spells of erraticness. He commands a great variety of strokes, one of his best being a very deceptive backhand drive. His nervousness and lack of cool, calm judgment handicaps him considerably and is not conducive to good team-work in doubles...
...commencement of the coal strike on Saturday marks the forcing by labor of the issue of radicalism in Great Britain. The English people are normally cool headed and stand always for fair play. Yet the miners show in their strike aims a sharp divergence from this characteristic; while ostensibly their demands are for higher wages, it is felt that the real issue is nationalization of the mines. The government some time ago offered to submit this question to an impartial tribunal. The miners refused. Lloyd George offered to pay them higher wages on condition that they bring production totals...