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Word: cools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor (like a low table) a horse is seen from above, on the wall parts of the same horse are seen from the side, and on the ceiling it is seen from beneath. The whole says nothing new, or even particularly convincing, about horses. But Kiesler, a cool optimist, says he chose his subject because it seems to dramatize space, as does an overturned table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Something New | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Even this expense, officials believe, is too great for a "glorified study hall," especially since the House libraries are so little used. But as exams draw nearer and nearer, seats in House libraries grow fewer and fewer, and, in addition, many students seem to prefer the cool, quiet comfort of Lamont. Library officials have stated that "we would rather have a first-class library with limited hours than a second-class library with longer hours." Their concern is thus evident, as it was when they showed their willingness to cooperate with students in such past matters as Friday checkout times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Lament | 10/5/1954 | See Source »

...ironical that Attlee's trip, much criticized in the United States, undoubtedly helped him to persuade the Party to back American policy in Europe. His popularity was evident when he opened the Conference battle on the endorsement of SEATO. The Times reported, that, "Speaking without a text he was cool, clear and confident, and he had many things to say which his audience wanted to hear. They were delighted, for instance, with a suggestion that Chiang Kai-shek and his immediate adherents should be retired to some safe place to live their lives out in peace ... They applauded him when...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The Scarborough Conference | 10/5/1954 | See Source »

...mysteries of geology is why the earth's climate has changed. During some geological ages, the whole earth has been abnormally warm, at other times abnormally cool. This sort of change can be attributed to variations in solar radia tion or some other allover effect. At times, parts of the earth that are now cool had tropical climates, while parts now tropical were covered with ice. The obvious explanation is that the poles and the icecaps associated with them were then in different parts of the earth's-surface, but this theory is hard to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Arizona Arctic | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Popeye. In Salem, Mass., suing Benjamin Pope Marion for divorce, Nancy Rice Marion, 29, testified that he put her over his knee, spanked her, poured a bottle of beer over her head to "cool her off" because the spinach she served him for dinner had not been chopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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