Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cool and self-confident was Premier Nahas for he knew he had the whip hand. Egypt off her own bat can legally renounce the capitulatory privileges of any power as she did in 1923 in Russia's case. The Premier preferred not to resort to highhandedness, yet it was crystal-clear to the delegates that he had won his battle before he started. The nub of the discussion was whether or not Egypt would be willing to abolish capitulations by slow degrees...
...study hall and is treated as one of the fine arts, are already acquainted with much of the material with which English 1 deals. It would be more profitable for these men to dig right into the field in one of the period courses, rather than let their interest cool in reshuffling old cards. Those who would then be left in the course could take it as their first glimpse of the broad field of English Literature as a whole, or it would serve as a final survey for men going on in other departments in the College...
...have been merely a cloud passing across the sun. But more than one observer noted last week that a cool wind was blowing and a shadow had fallen on the President's popularity-his popularity not with the public but with that circle of a few thousand men who constitute official Washington. To the people who voted for him last November, Franklin Roosevelt was Mr. Right, but to official Washington he has been, even more, Mr. Big. They might occasionally grumble at his tactics, but they had much the same practical faith and trust in Roosevelt the victor...
...clearing called Portland where the Willamette River runs into the mighty Columbia. The first Frank, Sigmund, joined Meier in partnership and married his daughter. By 1883, when the Northern Pacific came through, they were prosperous. After that, as Portland's deep draft harbor thrived and the cool city grew around it, the Meiers and Franks became rich and powerful. For years their 15-story building has been the financial fulcrum of the city, its advertising the lifeblood of Portland's three newspapers. And the store has won the final tribute of a nickname - "Murphy & Finnegan...
Soon as the Senate convened next day, Senator Robinson resumed, with every parliamentary trick in his bag, his attempts to get the Byrnes hot potato tossed out to cool in committee. But newshawks noted that gruff Joe Robinson was arguing with unaccustomed joviality. He grinned when, each time he asked for unanimous consent, North Carolina's Bailey boomed: 'T object...