Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mankind's most reassuring cosmic thinkers died last week. Death came at 61 to cool, unruffled Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge University astronomer, in a Cambridge nursing home...
...Willkie, no politician, had gone on crusading for his ideals. Ex-District Attorney Tom Dewey, who had observed their mistakes, had another advantage-he had four more years of the New Deal record to throw at his opponent. In the last fortnight of the campaign he was fighting a cool, confident, hard fight, slugging it out toe to toe with the Champ. His fight-loving audiences plainly relished it whenever Dewey repeated: "Well, he asked for it-and here...
...shade, is so tough that an automobile skid does not scar it. In the south, it has been found ideal for airfields, golf tees, parks, and as a general ground cover. For northern areas, there is a hitch: the grass does not grow very successfully in cool climates, and frost turns it brown...
...moment, neither Wanley nor the girl nor the audience know a moment's peace. The professor's decision to dispose of the body and his meticulous efforts to obliterate all trace of the murder make a tale that hovers on the edge of panic. Resolving to be cool and sensible, Wanley commits every blunder in the books. With the body crumpled in the back of his car he very nearly gets arrested for driving through a red light. At the parkway tollgate he manages to drop his dime in the road. As he fumbles for another coin...
Baseball in Tombstone. After settling accounts with his family's cool Unitarianism, Anglophile Peabody entered the mild warmth of the Episcopal Church. Thereafter "he was . . . first of all a priest." With his brimming fund of faith, Peabody at Cambridge's Episcopal Theological School was "just not interested in details of the Higher Criticism or lower skepticism...