Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bristol, Va., Dr. John Preston Mc Connell, 66, president of East Radford, Va.'s State Teachers College, rose to address some 100 male & female colleagues of Southwestern Virginia, Inc., of which also he is president. Suddenly his trousers dropped, bunched about his knees. Cool, Dr. McConnell pulled them up, declared: "I'm indeed glad this happened. It has put everybody in a good mood...
...matters in hand seemed to grow most vivid through the personality of Dr. Hocking, the ruddy-faced, stubbly-mustached 59-year-old Harvard philosopher who chairmanned the Commission. No great orator, he spoke intensely, earnestly. A cool-minded stalker of religion in his books (best-known: The Meaning of God in Human Experience), Dr. Hocking wrote the first four chapters of Re-Thinking Missions, the groundwork of the whole discussion. Last week he got his laugh when he was asked to answer somebody's question: "If it be accepted that a culture, as distinguished from a mood or a tendency...
...news that Harvard has invested in a new land purchase will doubtless call forth vociferous protest from at least a few of the courageous Antaratic malcontents who massed their library opinions on the steps of Widener, and found them cool enough. It deserves to be said however, that the criticism of the University's actions would be greater if purchase of the land had been delayed, and the owners of the property left to dispose of it at will. No one in Winthrop House, for example, would relish the idea of a towering apartment house on the land. Without University...
...bout was no natural for Petrolle: he normally fights at 140 lb., had to take off eight pounds in eleven days to make the limit (135 lb.). Canzoneri soon discovered the result. Cool and chipper, an 8-to-5 favorite, he brushed away Petrolle's usually lethal right, danced briskly around the ring peppering quick little punches at Petrolle's head. As Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with...
...Washington Bi-Centennial. The ballet Skyscrapers, proved, too, that Carpenter's expert craftsmanship serves him best in light, colorful music, unburdened by big ideas. But Patterns, with its sentimental waltz bit, its brief Spanish interlude, its sketchy piano embroidery, was almost anemic, its reception by critics and audience cool...