Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later, when the embers had grown cool enough, members of the posse raked out the Negroes' bodies, sliced off bits of roasted flesh, carved out pieces of blackened bone to take home for souvenirs...
Lord Allenby brought his military reputation through the War with less damage than most of his peers. Born of an untitled Yorkshire family, he entered the Army after flunking Indian Civil Service examinations. Having proved himself a cool, competent bush fighter in Bechuanaland, Zululand and the Boer War, he was a major general in command of all British cavalry by 1914. Flanders was no place for horsemen. His career was nearly wrecked by the slaughter of his cavalry at the battle of Arras in 1917. Two months later he was sent to see what he could do about the situation...
...Apalachicola, Fla., took such an interest in municipal affairs that he became postmaster, city treasurer, city councillor, mayor. Fever descended on Apalachicola every summer and Dr. Gorrie found it impossible to treat his patients in the hot weather. The earnest young physician thought the best thing was to cool his patients off, and for that he needed ice. Compressed air escaping from a small orifice feels cold...
Whooping it up in Geneva fortnight ago for stiffer sanctions against Italy or an immediate armistice, Foreign Minister Eden returned to London over the week-end for a few cool words of advice from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
First concert was in Hartford, where the players blamed the recent flood for what seemed to be a cool reception even to Stokowski's dazzling Bach orchestrations, the electrified excerpts from Wagner's Gotterdammerung. But Boston more than made up for Hartford's apathy. In Hartford Stokowski played a Bach encore "because you seem to love Bach so." In Boston he played four encores because Bostonians clamored for them. Gist of Stokowski's speech in Boston was his admiration for Boston's Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony "from which I learned so much...