Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High vacation costs and lack of transport and resorts are plaguing our staffs in warring China. Nevertheless, Fred Gruin reports from Nanking that he has the name of a veteran missionary in Kuling, China's cool summer capital, who may be able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants...
...Congress plodded along in the heat at dogtrot pace, breaking into sprints only when it came to political alleys. The Republican majority was still out to twist the President's tail (TIME, July 14), and Harry Truman's veto of the revived tax-cut bill did not cool any tempers. Senate Republicans brought up a measure to investigate Attorney General Tom Clark's handling of a matter close to Harry Truman's home voting booth. The author of the resolution, Missouri's Senator James...
...casual shoppers in the Coop this summer, all seems quiet and cool, but few realize that frantic, behind the scenes preparations are in progress to handle the hoard of students expected to descend upon the Square in September...
Scant effort is made by Widener Library to keep the scholar cool, but the game cannot he said for the most valuable book kept there, the Gutenberg Bible. It is currently being "rested" from the summer run in an air-conditioned safe...
...draws bejeweled Eva as a blank face with a heart-shaped mouth as her only identification. Last November, when Evita traveled to the sugar-rich Tucumán province, where sugar workers live in abject peonage, seven people were crushed to death in the rush for gifts. Eva was cool through it all. "I bring a message of love," she said, "for the workers of Tucum...