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Word: cools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After this initial exchange of blows we made a circle off the transports at the "Canal" and when we returned ... an enemy ship was blasting away at the Australian cruiser Canberra. . . . Captain Bode made a fair and cool decision when he decided against entering the engagement, for he saw his duty was to protect American boys on the unguarded transports lying in the harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...inference in your article that the men in command of the individual ships were not of the caliber to hold such responsibilities. ... If there was ever an unreasonable martinet, a Captain Bligh of the U.S. Navy-Captain Bode was it, but when it came to naval warfare, logical thinking, cool judgment and action, he was all the Navy and its traditions could boast. Later, for reasons unknown to us, he found it necessary to take his life, but in the early stages of the war, when there were but a few of us and little glory, Captain Bode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...years, the new All-America Football Conference managed to make the headlines without playing a game. It lured away 120 players from the well-established National Football League, upped players' salaries about 35% in the process, spent a cool $3 million getting started. Last week the new eight-team* pro league finally kicked off its first football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kickoff | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...elite's cool hilltop villas overlooking Port-au-Prince, the roar was all too audible. It was le rouleau compresseur -the "steamroller" as Fignolé's Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called -trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The New President | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Surveying 18 cities, the Modern Hospital reported overcrowding so bad that "beds scarcely have time to cool off between patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospital Boom | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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