Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Hopkins. Still, it was Hopkins or nothing. Some got drunk, some went home (one of these was Virginia's apple-cheeked apple grower, Senator Harry Flood Byrd). But most went around to Hopkins' headquarters, there meekly, glumly, sadly or rebelliously surrendered. Over their heads the shrewd, cool Secretary of Commerce held one awful threat: one false move out of the Convention and your only candidate won't run. Then where...
Night harness racing is nothing new. In Ohio, where there are more "twice arounds" (half-mile tracks) than anywhere else in the world, trotters have raced under lights for more than a decade. Well aware that "bosses" run as well if not better in the cool of the evening (several world's records have been broken at Toledo), the country's leading stable owners last week were willing to trust their pets to a track sanctioned by their fellow owner, Socialite Elbridge T. Gerry, Chairman of New York's Harness Racing Commission, and backed by such upright...
...beginning Dr. Gamow pictures an enormously hot, tremendously dense gas expanding in space. As it expanded, it thinned and cooled. Chance aggregations began to clump together out of the mass, to contract by gravity. These were infant stars. They were very large, and diffuse, relatively cool...
...holy duty to spend it. In 1926 he backed a Broadway play, The Ladder, for an old playwright schoolmate. Believing in its theme of reincarnation. Angel Davis stubbornly kept the play (a flop) going for two years, eventually admitted the public free. The whim cost him a cool $1,300,000 before he had had enough. Going back to Texas to drill for more oil, he watched the last of his capital disappear into his pet "deep oil" holes. There is a legend that in answer to a cable from...
...this warfare of the mind, Edmond Taylor's book is a lucid, cool and informative study. As Paris correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, Taylor watched the onset of Nazi psychological warfare, analyzed its effects on the French Government and people, learned what forms it took...