Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weren't on the hay-ride! That was your mistake . . . hereafter follow your Social Committee's advice. Sixty couples made the trip to Norumbega Park and had a great time, despite such minor (?) inconveniences as cool weather, hayless wagons, and a lack of muleskinners on the return trip. If you didn't attend, you missed: Al Bizal, he of the mispronounceable name, making his Boston debut and being received with open arms by the girls from Endicott. Ed Clark, sitting comfortably in one corner of the wagon with a happy smile on his face, shouting, "Neckst." Dave Clevenger, discouraged over...
...Africa, Alexander replaced Auchinleck as commander of the British Middle East Forces when Rommel was battering at the gates of Alexandria. He was at a relief job again. Cool as a cucumber in a gin sling and twice as impersonal, he planned and mounted the great attack which General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery brilliantly executed-and Rommel was rolled all the way back to Tripolitania...
...time, the new imperialism came, with Louis Botha as the warm heart and Jan Smuts as the cool brain of the Union of South Africa. Jan Smuts recovered his admiration for the British: "They gave us back-in everything but name-our country. . . . They're a big people." But many a Boer, clinging to the memory of the pioneer Voortrekkers, whose ox wagons and rifles had beaten aside the yellow-brown Hottentots and the black Kaffirs, remained unreconstructed. They called Smuts Rhodes redivivus (Rhodes reborn), or Slim (sly, cunning) Jannie, and other more barbed names...
...Armed Guard crew of a merchant vessel during action against the enemy while acting as part of the invasion fleet at Salerno, 11 to 17 September, 1943. Because of the repeated attacks throughout the six day period, the Navy Gun Crew maintained a constant vigilance, executing their duties with cool efficiency despite the continues danger from falling bombs, shrapnel and withering blasts of enemy machine-gun fire. Their accurate shellfire shot down three hostile bombers...
...income for the parent company, Mr. Behn reported, was $1,284,184 last year v. a deficit of $1,021,537 in 1942; on a consolidated basis it was $5,528,939 - a cool two and a half times the previous year, and the highest since booming, peaceful 1937. Yet the consolidated figures not only excluded I. T. & T.'s European manufacturing subsidiaries (representing 16.6% of its total investments) and its Spanish telephone properties (22.5%), but also its two-thirds share in the net income of American Cable & Radio Corp., which earned...