Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They'll snow hot devils in and make them cool. Your breath will melt and shrivel it.?Now puff, you puffers...
...drubbing, Chairman Crisp uprose to say: "I may be defeated but I'm never a quitter. I don't believe the House is in a proper frame of mind to legislate today. I think it would do us all good to have an opportunity to cool off and to think." Thereupon at his suggestion the House adjourned, laying the tax bill aside for three full days. Also at his suggestion it was agreed to skip 200 pages forward through the measure and have a showdown vote on the sales tax provision early this week...
...great areas of his body are denuded of the skin and other agencies which help regulate body temperature. A cool breeze chills him. Hence his oven, a hood of sheet steel over his bed. Four big electric bulbs keep him comfortable at 103° F. His head, shoulders and arms are outside his hot box. Thus he can read, play cards, shake hands with visitors. His doctors hope to graft skin on him some day. Last week he cheered himself & his family thus: "They told me a guy is a dead soldier if more than one-third of his body...
...about 40 years old, he appeared in Aklavik, North West Territories, about a year ago, said he had walked in from Alaska. He seemed to have plenty of money. He built himself a little cabin about 100 miles south of Aklavik, shut himself up in it and was notably cool to strangers...
...scorching desert floor to meet it. Glimmering waves of heat dance out of the iron-hot Funeral Range and Panamint Mountain until it seems that the whole world lies waiting for one final and consuming igneous blast. . . . Then, on the waltzing surface of distant alkali, a lake of sweet cool waters appears. But the wise desert rat astride his fuzzy burro passes his tongue between cracked lips, smiles ironically and sets the portent down as Death Valley's crowning treachery, the mirage. And yet, last week, there was a lake in California's subsea level inferno. One Perry...