Word: cools
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with pa-DUG-in) was the guardian of the British Empire, a product of Eton and Oxford, a veteran of four decades in the diplomatic service. Cool, clipped, careful, the former Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs stayed in the background at open sessions. In closed sessions, he was most firm 'in holding the line against the Russians...
...midst of last week's international tensions and uncertainties, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, fervent New Dealer and able, if not popular, member of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, rose in the Senate to make a cool defense of the Soviet Union and a fiery attack on Harry Truman's policy of "getting tough" with Russia...
Died. Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, 80, prototype of Kipling's cool, Latin-quoting Stalky, and last of the immortal trio* of Stalky & Co., in Torquay, Devonshire. As a full-grown soldier he was still the Kipling hero, in World War I bluffed the Turks out of the Baku oilfields with a handful...
Ordinary lamps emit light from a considerable area, usually a glowing coil of tungsten wire. This makes shadows fuzzy, causes all sorts of trouble in optical instruments. Scientists have long yearned for a convenient, cool "point source" of light. Now, according to Western Union, they...
...almost scratched him-but Owner Ethel Hill insisted that he run. He ran as he never had before, nosed out the dapple-grey favorite, First Fiddle, in a four-horse photo finish. To the owner, a Hollywood scenario writer, went a gold cup, a $101,220 purse, and a cool handshake from her boss, Louis B. Mayer, whose entry (Be Faithful) finished seventh...