Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand, Tommy was, as usual, cool, debonair, confident. He admitted that he had made some $100,000 in lawyer's fees, mostly in connection with Government business. He insisted stoutly that he had done no wrong, used no political influence-that he had merely advised his clients what to do, where to go, how to manage deals with the Government. As for Empire, said Tommy, Cohen had asked him for advice. Too busy to handle the case himself, he recommended another law firm, collected $5,000 as his share of their...
Into a neighborhood health center crowded 44 buzzing citizens, ranging from a boy in green corduroy slacks to a determined-looking grandmother. They all came to learn First Aid from a Red Cross teacher. The teacher bustled around selling the Red Cross textbook, warning the students to keep cool, not to faint at the sight of blood. "If you see an accident," he said, "call a doctor at once. Your job is to make a victim comfortable, and prevent complications. You are not a substitute for a trained physician...
...City's 10,000,000 windows. Most big cities are so noisy that civilians cannot hear air-raid warnings. New York's Board of Estimate last week appropriated $25,000 to buy sirens. In the newspapers, OCD took full-page advertisements telling civilians what to do ("Keep cool. Stay at home. Put out lights.") if raiders come...
...current of low voltage. When he brings the rod close to the metal to be welded, the current leaps across the near-contact, forming a blinding arc whose temperature-some 6,500° F.-melts both the rod and the metal being welded into tiny molten pools which quickly cool into solid metal. Since the welder's rod (called an electrode) melts down like a candle, he carries a quiverful of rods with him as he works...
...best weekly jobs of radio journalism rounded out its first year this Tuesday when Report to the Nation (Columbia network at 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.) took its listeners aloft in a Flying Fortress. The 52nd Report, like most that had gone before, combined a cool flow of information with the exciting immediacies of what it meant to human beings-in this case to airmen and ground crews. In authenticity and taste, Report to the Nation has established itself as the nearest thing in radio to a good documentary movie...