Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swift waters of the Colorado River last week turned from their bed. Flashing in the sun, they poured westward across the desert, through the mountains, came at last into the thirsty streets of Pasadena, 225 miles away. The Colorado had not changed its course. The cool stream flowing over the desert and through the mountains was a man-made river, a giant aqueduct created to carry water to the semi-arid cities of Southern California's coastal plain...
...planned to release white doves from beneath their gowns and walk out of the commencement. Inside the yard it was plain that they would do nothing of the sort. Harvard's capped-&-gowned seniors lined up respectfully to let a host of guests march past. Looking pale and cool in his black gown was Harvard's most distinguished guest: Lord Halifax...
...nuclei-that they are not matter as we know it but rather invisible, sub atomic debris. These hot, degenerate gases are expanded, Menzel believes, by the force of great whirlpools within the sun. Therefore, streaming out of the sun's interior in occasional eruptions, the gases do not cool immediately. Far from the sun's surface, they retain much of the heat of the sun's interior, and they are still so highly ionized as to be invisible. But as they cool, the atoms become less ionized, and electrons rejoin their nuclei. Visible matter condenses apparently...
...Entrance exam, looks over the list of English courses. Skipping Advanced Public Speaking and Theses for Honors, he sees, after English A-I, "Open to Freshmen who have been excused from English A." Naturally he thinks it better than English A, the abomination. He hesitates to plunge into the cool green depths of English I. He takes English...
...mountainous, seagirt Crete, 150 miles south, King George's refugee Government speedily repudiated General Tsolakoglou. Last week no Nazi banners flew beside the cool flags of Greece rippling over Crete. But above the island's snow-streaked mountains, above its olive groves and fields of fire-colored poppies, roared the Nazi advance guard-dark Stukas and silvery Junkers bombing Greek and British transports and warships in Cretan harbors...