Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written. The speech was to be delivered at a joint Manhattan rally of C.LO.'s P.A.C. and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. Harry Truman, looking toward November, felt he ought to cultivate those fellows a little. They had grown a little cool toward him. He glanced at the speech, told Mr. Wallace it was O.K. and hardly gave it another thought...
...hard fact was that the Government had hot-potatoed the labor problem from one man to another, somehow hoping that tossing it about would cool it. But the potato was finally back in Mr. King's hand, and it was still sizzling...
Bitter enemies of the Bermuda highs are the "polar air masses" which bulge down from Canada. Their cool air creeps below warmer air masses, lifts them off the ground, wringing the moisture out of them in belts of chilly rain. When a polar air mass finally dominates the sky, the weather turns cool and clear...
Their chief difficulty with these breeds seems to be lack of built-in air conditioning. Cattle have no sweat glands. On hot days, they cool themselves by the energy-consuming process of breathing hard and evaporating moisture from their lungs. When the temperature goes above 95°, they run a two-degree fever. Instead of grazing in the broiling Southern sun, they prefer to stand idly in the shade and go hungry...
...speed, heat from the engine and the friction of the airstream zipping over the canopy raises the inside temperature from 40 to 60 degrees. When the outside temperature is already high, this increase is enough to prostrate the pilot. Some ships have elaborate refrigeration systems to cool the cockpits...