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Word: cools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat records were broken, but temperatures of 90° or higher were recorded day after day in Kansas City, Baltimore, Boston, Washington-in most cases accompanied by unusually high humidity readings. (In Washington, 92°, a woman telephoned the Weather Bureau, asked "Where will I have to go to cool off? New Hampshire?" "Sorry," replied the Weather Bureau, "it's 90 in New Hampshire.") The Act of God which produced these extraordinary phenomena was the misbehavior, for no apparent reason, of high and low pressure areas. These areas usually proceed across the U. S., from west to east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Humiture Wave | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...from the Gulf of Mexico across the eastern half of the U. S. and southern lows simultaneously moved farther north than usual. Result: a predominance of hot and damp southern air. One good low, traveling across the country, would have attracted cooler air from Canada, but instead of enjoying cool Canadian breezes, the U. S. was treated to an uninterrupted outpouring of subtropical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Humiture Wave | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...about 1,200 in New York, the painting divisions in Chicago have been notable from the start for a higher average of professional competence. Apparent reason: making a living is harder in Chicago, more first-raters rate relief. Last week's 12,000 visitors, sauntering down the nine cool galleries of the Institute's east wing, found scarcely a boondoggling brush stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chicago Project | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...three years Lufthansa pilots have flown the North Atlantic as cool as cream: they made eight flights in 1936, 14 in 1937, and this year they will make 28, two a week, with the Nordmeer, Nordwind and Nordstern, all Hamburg Ha. 1395 with four Diesel engines, a catapult start, and a payload of only 880 Ib. Lufthansa would like to start flying mail any day now, but it has been allowed to use Pan American's sea base at Port Washington only if it waits till Pan American can match it flight for flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Orleans 120. At drugstore counters in a hundred southern towns, at filling stations, country stores, Southerner Jonathan Daniels found his countrymen drinking Coca-Colas, joined them, got them talking about their native land. Last week he published an account of their opinions and his observations, a cool, 346-page book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold-Drink Philosophy | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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