Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fact was that a good six of the 23 days had been needed for a very essential process: Congress had to cool down enough to stop spluttering over the President's attack on it for having forbidden price control of farm products below 110% of parity...
...Condé Nast publications, and rose in three years to become managing editor of Vanity Fair. She is married to Henry R. Luce, editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; she has a daughter, Ann Brokaw, 18, by her first marriage to Socialite George T. Brokaw; she has a cool certainty of poise that tongue-ties men; she likes chocolate milkshakes, and often writes...
...popularity of the Harvard route among the Good Humored icemen is due to the fact that sales do not drop in cold or rainy weather, Lurie said, whereas most routes, such as beaches and residential areas, drop to two per cent of their usual income on damp or cool days. The reason for this, as accepted in local frozen sherbert circles, is that "people around here don't buy the stuff because they're hot, but because they're hungry...
...true. He who had worn black for anarchists hanged after the Haymarket riots,* and who chiefly wrote of simple peasant lives, had ranged himself beside the Gestapo. To the big, white country house which success had brought him, after harsh years of poverty, winds bring the cool fragrance of sea and kelp, of grass and Norwegian earth. Outside the maples whisper. But in the house, now crammed with a painful store of books, the man who always loved solitude had won it, at last, in bitter measure...
Potential irritants are almost everywhere-e.g., the oils with which sheets of aviation aluminum are coated, the chloronaphthalenes which waterproof electrical equipment, the oils which cool and lubricate the cutting edges of machine tools. Cutting oils are probably most bothersome. A Federal survey of 2,000 machinists in 1922 found that 27% of these workers suffered from oil acne. Vegetable and animal oils have often replaced the petroleum oils, but machinist's dermatitis is still common...