Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period, makes each work of art a scholarly achievement. It is true that during the fifteenth century the Renaissance was well on its way toward what proved to be a comprehensive exodus from the medieval tradition, but nothing is more representative of the scholastic mind than the highly neutralized, cool, sober color of van der Goes and his almost Aristotelian concern for accuracy and precision. It is not difficult to see, simply by examining some of the paintings on exhibit, that the full spirit of the Renaissance did not reach the art of the northern countries until well after...
...Cool as genteel cucumbers are the county medical societies which make up the rank & file of the American Medical Association. But hot as a red pepper is the New York County (Manhattan) Medical Society, largest and most powerful in the U. S. Last fall, its members objected to closed conclaves of the officers, clamored for open-meeting discussion of all important business matters. Last week members kicked up another hullabaloo...
...books, from which he gets too little money; the young woman works very hard and is very "gallant." The arduous simplicities of their living and their small adventures are described in great detail; they have a baby; they are very happy indeed. Warm readers will find the tale disarming; cool readers may wonder whether love so nearly cloudless is interesting enough to write or read about. It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels...
...counted in," wrote upstate New York's potent Congressman James W. Wadsworth (see p. 18), whom Publisher Gannett helped turn out of the U. S. Senate in 1926. An interested if distant observer in Washington was Frank Gannett's friend William Edgar Borah of Idaho. Distinctly cool was Herbert Hoover in Manhattan. Coldly observant near by were most New York Republican politicos. They gave Frank Gannett small chance, nevertheless foresaw that by splitting the State delegation he could gravely harm New York's Candidate Tom Dewey at the G. O. P. convention this summer. For years...
...long refusal to recognize his Government, snubbed British and French commercial agents, although what Spain needed to recover was trade and more trade. The French sent their distinguished soldier, 83-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, to deal with the reluctant Spaniards, but even he had to cool his heels while waiting for audiences with Spanish officials...