Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aggression pact with Germany (TIME, Feb. 3, 1934). Last week the German Press was so hopeful that Poland would deadlock the Council that even when Nazis in the Polish Corridor were mobbed and beaten by irate Poles no newspaper in Germany was allowed to print the fact. At Geneva cool Colonel Beck at the last minute cast Poland's vote with that of all Council members except abstaining Denmark to approve two measures...
...individual batting, with the exception of Dick Fletcher, who connected safely his only time up, Johnny Adzigian leads the Harvard stickmen with a cool .500 average. The team falls off badly after this, and the next hitter is Frankie Owen, hitting...
Author Spencer writes violently, too often as one beating the air. Metaphors meant to be mighty come out merely mixed: "Soon the sun would be lost to sight, dragging its garden of colours behind it. Then the black clouds would cool away or sink like heavy anchors, and with the downing of the gaudy light, the sky would be peppered with blinking stars, gasping for life, weak from the tumult of the sun's going." Her violent story...
...drudgery as partner in a boarding house, while Ewan starts work at an iron foundry. Written in the same earthy dialect as its predecessors, Grey Granite is peopled with no less salty characters, but the sign of the restless times lies heavier on it with every page. Ewan, a cool customer who cares for nothing and nobody but himself and his own affairs, finds himself forced into awareness of his fellow-workers. Before he realizes it he is emotionally involved in their plight, and a friendship with a socialistic young schoolmarm rouses his intellectual interest in the economic wherefores...
...refused in 1919 to join the League of Nations, its refusal had positive as well as negative implications. Our insistence on full neutral rights would, of necessity, have conflicted with the projected League policy of blockading aggressors. It was this possibility that caused English support of the League to cool and in particular explained her refusal to sign the guarantee treaty desired by France at that time. The present crisis, which may force the British into a more vigorous stand, coupled with a possible change in American policy (foreshadowed by some of Mr. Roosevelt's statements and given concrete expression...