Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barnes Nicholson of Mt. Wilson Observatory reported two heralds of the sunspot upturn, slyly adding that he saw a first and fainter one a month ago. Sunspots seem to be whirlwinds-the mouths of spiral disturbances arising from below the surface. Hot gases emerging from the vortex expand and cool, thus make the spot look comparatively dark. Though no explanation of the cause of the disturbances has been confidently advanced, the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is possibly involved. Visible spots range in size from a few hundred to 50,000 mi. across. They wax & wane...
...life is really no more than a negative for her pictures, a high-speed press for headlines. Hanlon has the marquis arrested for not renewing his passport; Lola gets the director to put up the bail. Before the screamer headlines on the first story have time to cool, Hanlon arranges for count and director to come to blows at Lola's house. The fight not only produces more headlines; it thwarts Lola's scheme, which Hanlon thinks might dull her lurid reputation, to adopt a baby, because it scandalizes the lady inspectors from the orphan asylum. When...
...plan, readers will find The Death of a World integral in itself. Annette Riviere and her only son Marc do not join in the rejoicing with which Paris greets the Armistice. Annette's warm heart fears what will happen to Marc in the post-War maelstrom, but her cool head warns her to keep her hands off. They are very poor, and Annette steadfastly refuses to take money from her half-sister Sylvie. who as the shrewd mistress of a millionaire is riding high on the tidal wave. When Marc finishes school, he and his mother part...
...closely during the first half, and several scuffies nearly resulted in goals for both Amherst and Harvard. Jonathan S. England '35, Crimson goalie, often pulled the chestnuts out of the fire by rash dashes out of the net. The Amherst forwards were constantly shooting for the net, and only cool work by halfbacks John Dorman '36 and Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36 kept the ball away from the Crimson end of the field...
...outside the pale of highest Empire finance have ever heard of him. Last New Year's Day small notice was taken when the King-Emperor made Sir Frederick Leith-Ross a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. Soon afterwards the City heard that tall, cool, piercing-eyed Sir Frederick, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, would be sent to the White House this autumn to negotiate a final settlement of the Empire's War debt to the U. S. He sailed last week on the Majestic with genial, expansive, moose-tall...