Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Englishman's cut-shots, netted repeatedly. After being set-point three times, Lord Aberdare won the first set 6-3, took the next quickly, then began to net shots on his own forehand. But Frazier let him have some on his backhand and Lord Aberdare, cool, dark-haired, unhurried, gained confidence, found grille and dedans for aces, mixed his usual service with an undertwist until he had the last set, 7-5, and the title...
...remarkable feature of this meteor", continues Professor Luyten, "is that it felt cool, in spite of the tropical sun almost overhead, which made the surrounding limestone unpleasantly hot to touch. It is said that this meteor is not magnetic. The results of the chemical analysis show 17.42 per cent nickel and 81.29 per cent iron. This is an unusually high proportion of nickel. It is not surprising, therefore, that the meteor is extremely hard and especially tough. Investigation with a file led to the estimate that this nickel-iron alloy compares in hardness with the hardest steel used on railroads...
Once again the Vagabond finds a group of special lectures to lure him forth from his cozy construction shack in the Lowell House yard into the cool of the evening air and the aloofness of Harvard Yard. The week's extra-curricular lectures open rather appropriately with "The Wandering Scholars and Mediaeval Latin Songs" by Professor Hilka of the University of Gottingen. Professor Hilka's discussion is scheduled for five o'clock this afternoon in Emerson...
...temperature of 40 below zero is not enough to cool the gold fever. Last week gold was struck in Poorman, Alaska, 50 miles south of Ruby on the Yukon River. Sergeant William N. Growden, U.S.A., obtained an Indian guide and dog team, proceeded from Ruby to Poorman, wired a report to the War Department. Excerpts: "RICHEST GOLD STRIKE IN HISTORY THIS CAMP. . . . EVERY MAN IN WHOLE VICINITY THAT CAN GET TRANSPORTATION . . . IS GOING OR GONE. . . . TEMPERATURE STILL 40 BELOW ZERO. BROKE PIECES FROM GROUND VARIOUS SECTIONS; HELD PAN WITH DIRT INTO TUB OF BOILING WATER TO THAW OUT, THEN PANNED...
...proverb, but in many instances it is nearly impossible to determine just what the voice of the people is demanding. In this connection, nothing has been more difficult of late than ascertaining the attitude of the American people on the prohibition question. Now the Literary Digest, with cool calculation, is preparing to sound the country by means of a straw vote on the question that has been so bitterly argued pro and con for the past ten years...