Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scattered individual protests have done little to cool the ardor of the Administrative Board for enforcing the Faculty Policy of compulsory war service credits. Dean Hanford and his assistants have bent backwards enough to recognize the advisability of granting requests to drop credits for basic or boot training; but on top of that minor concession they have started to apply the pressure of officialdom to those men who have not yet submitted their form 100's or equivalent Navy chits on service "education...
...Last Look. Sergeant Karl Zimmerli, another member of the Swiss rescue party, described grey-haired Margaret Tate, wife of a U.S. general, and engineer George Harvey as "heroes" of the ordeal. Said Zimmerli: "Mrs. Tate is a very brave woman. She stayed cool even when we crossed crevasses which were hundreds of feet deep. Several times she said: 'Pilot is my darling.' I didn't understand until they told me the pilot is her son. That is probably the reason too why she asked me to turn the sledge [towards] the crashed plane. She told...
...abortive Russian revolution of 1905, of Norway's breakaway from Sweden, of syndicalism and the brotherhood of all workers. In those days Trygve Lie also acquired a faith: Socialism. But even then, his faith was tempered-as it would be through all his later life-by a cool, stolid pragmatism...
...Mario, the new priest, was a patient man; he knew that Italian tempers cool eventually. Last week a small, penitent group came to Mass. There was also a noticeable decline in attendance at Pastor Schreider's sermons. Said Don Mario, beaming gently: "I wager they all, even the black sheep, will come to hear midnight Mass on Christmas. Peace will return...
...year and a half after graduation, Hoagy wrote Stardust, and was in. Now, after 47 years with hot music, Hoagy is beginning to cool off. Says he: "Looks to me like jazz is dying out. Nothing new coming down the groove. Same old construction. Everything built on the same old blues chords." Most jazzmen, he thinks, have lost the spirit epitomized by a colored piano player, who once told him: "Never play anything that ain't right. You may not make any money but you'll never get hostile with yourself...