Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connected with or receive assistance from Soviet Russia, whether their principles are understood by their followers, they have devised a system that works marvellously well in such landlord ridden provinces as Kiangsi and Hupeh. Last year it cost $45,000,000 to fight them. Most of the Nationalists were cool to the idea of battling Communism, notably Finance Minister T. V. Soong who resigned because he believed it a waste of money. His return this year was taken to indicate an easing...
...Carbondale, Ill., Herman Rushkorff, farmer, was accustomed to drink wine in his cool cellar until he fell asleep. Last week wine-bibbing Herman Rushkorff dozed, fell with his face in a puddle of wine one inch deep, drowned...
Soaring is necessarily confined to regions where hills & valleys provide barriers over which the prevailing winds must jump, causing sustained updrafts; or where plowland, woods & water heat and cool the wind, cause rising convection currents. A skilled pilot may soar for hours from ridge to ridge, now & then picking out an arid patch of ground over which he can climb a rising flow of warm air as he would a circular staircase. A high development of the sport is "cloud-hopping," "hooking on" beneath a cumulus cloud, which always indicates warm air, and riding it for miles. Similarly an advancing...
...Chicago, overheated Karl Marvin tried to cool himself with ice. The trickle down his neck was uncomfortable. He tried it with dry ice (solid CO2), froze both his ears...
...Cool Competition. Pioneer in railway air-conditioning is Baltimore & Ohio. It has equipped all the cars of its 27-hr. Manhattan-St. Louis train with airconditioning, as a bid against the crack 22-hr, trains of New York Central and Pennsylvania over the same route...