Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prominent musicians are capable of such teamwork, even for the sake of filling a hall in hard times. Mischa Elman's sweet, sentimental tones would scarcely blend very well with, for example, the fast-fingered playing of Vladimir Horowitz. It would be difficult to imagine cool, imperturbable Jascha Heifetz teaming with turbulent Ignace Jan Paderewski, or to picture grave Fritz Kreisler playing with elfin José Iturbi...
...showing up Radio City. This is probably the last word that need be said on this thing, the Radio City, "conceived in the lush days. . . the posthumous child of Coolidge Prosperity". It is a strong one, and wastes no time salaaming to that super-dreamer, Mr. Rothapfel. The cool reception of Roxy's first programs may have disillusioned John D. Rockefeller as to the merits of his distribution of "God's Gold"; the Art spread thick all around may have bothered President Butler at certain times; but it will not bother New Yorkers, for it is a quite unnecessary building...
From the world at large messages of sympathy and relief flooded in upon President-elect Roosevelt. To a man, his country rose to applaud his cool courage in the face of Death. All minor political discords were hushed in the paean of popular rejoicing at his escape. The Miami episode added one more asset to the large store Franklin Roosevelt already has to take into the White House: he is a martyr President at the start of his term...
...sweat droplets, scald the patient. General Motors' Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering who bought the radiotherm from General Electric (whose Chemist Willis Rodney Whitney built it after accidental discovery that short radio waves cause fever), figured that a draft of dry, hot air would evaporate the sweat, cool the uncomfortable patient. Mr. Kettering invented a successful blaster, using air almost hot enough to make water boil...
...sustain the life of a few bacteria: that bacteria can endure intense cold; that the heat generated by a meteorite passing through the Earth's atmosphere is not enough to kill sealed-in bacteria because the passage occurs so quickly that the interior of the meteorite is relatively cool though the outside is white...