Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Travel advertising took a sudden, self-conscious spurt, but had a frustrated tone. Lake George, N.Y. beckoned soothingly: "Everything within easy walking distance . . . you don't need a car." Sea Island, Ga. boasted: "No rationing of cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your...
...British carry such messages as may be necessary between A.F. of L. officials and the Russians. Sir Walter had visited the U.S. in February, found the A.F. of L., with which the British have long had fraternal relations, still adamantly against direct dealings with Russians. He found the C.I.O. cool toward relations with the Russians, cold toward joining an A.F. of L. -dominated committee. Before he returns to London this time, Sir Walter will know whether his patient trotting back & forth has sufficed to keep open the way toward eventual direct three-way collaboration...
Oceanographer Parr's own ideas on climate control are still in a sketchy stage, but he offered meteorologists a few provocative suggestions: they might "create a city of calm in a windy location" by means of windbreaks and shelterbelt planting, cool or warm a city by the use of "heat-generating or light-reflecting facades in city building," control the effects of the sun by intelligent planning of light and shadow...
Then there were the town-gown riots with Cambridge's vociferous councilman, Mickey Sullivan, violently protecting the rights of the poor boys from the town, and the Yard Cops protecting the poor College boys. Meanwhile sex was everywhere, with many a cool summer-school hand smoothing the fevered brow of the returning student warrior...
...Regimental Ball at the Statler on June 23rd honoring Company A was most successful. The main ballroom was decorated with Naval flags and pennants. The evening called for cool whites and summer formals. Mal Hallett's Orchestra furnished the music. Under the direction of Lt. (jg) O. B. Dahle, the N. T. S. Glee Club sang several numbers including the beloved "This Is My Home" by Sibelius, "Service Medley", the Negro spiritual "Steal Away", and "This Is Worth Fighting For", featuring the baritone voice of Ensign Bernard Lamb...