Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subtle murder, emblemished with crisp dialogue and painstaking detail, seems like a strange marriage of Edgar Allen Poe and Hamlin Garlin. Miss Leonard has constructed her slice of horror carefully and correctly, slipping the stilleto in exactly the right place at the right time. Although this is a cool, professional job, it does not have the strength of personal involvement that the Stewart story...
...justly advertise, with pride: "Twenty degrees more cool inside...
There are some nice, hummable songs, and there is attractive singing, notably by lithe Eartha Kitt. The dancing is refreshingly clean and cool; even the ballet numbers maintain a certain air of the ballroom. By ordinary revue standards, New Faces gets by very well; what it falls short...
Even today, fighter planes fly at such searing speeds that their engines must suck in some 18 tons of air an hour in order to keep cool. Pilots already have their own refrigeration system. Soon, says Rice, refrigeration systems will be needed for electronic and hydraulic equipment. Engineers are already searching for new oils that can withstand high temperature...
...find the practical limits of the thermal barrier, says Rice, "take a hypothetical missile flying at 2,000 m.p.h. at 60,000 ft." If it were no bigger than a home refrigerator it would need the power of 20 such refrigerators to keep it cool enough. The real barrier "may be the point at which the power required to cool the equipment equals the power of the airplane or missile...