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Word: cools (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...push him about a bit, but he would not have to worry about rain or snow. His worst problem would be the more extreme contrast between winter and summer. The Martian year (almost twice as long as the earthly year) allows Mars more time to heat up in summer, cool off in winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather Report from Mars | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...chair (rental ten cents), one can watch sailboats moving around in the water, sky-writing airplanes spelling out "New Blue Sunoco" in formation, little children crawling over their mothers and dropping pieces of their chocolate covered ice cream all over them, or one can just watch the cool breezes whipping the spring fashions into shape. One can feel the trickle of cool beer running down a parched throat, feel the warm rays of the sun hitting lightly protected flesh. One can hear G. Wallace Woodworth and the Glee Club and Malcolm Holmes and the Band...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 5/19/1950 | See Source »

...Shoes in Cairo. "Cacoola," as it is locally known, was flooding Egypt like a second life-giving Nile. Egyptians, barred by Moslem law from alcoholic refreshments, used to buy sickly sweet, dirty concoctions from street vendors. Now they are enthusiastically consuming nearly 350 million cool, clean Cokes a year. Barely five years after Cacoola appeared in Egypt, the country is dotted with shiny red coolers, many of them presided over by Egypt's oldtime ice merchants who, thanks to the raised living standard caused by this minor economic revolution, now wear shoes for the first time in human memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Sun Never Sets On Cacoola | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...supper club, it profoundly irritated the girl companion of a young British ex-officer named John Edwards. The Briton suggested that the Argentine desist. When Tascherest ignored the suggestion, Edwards took a tumbler of water and dropped a tiny trickle on the ambassador's head "to cool him off a bit." Tascherest retaliated by hurling a highball, with glass, at Edwards. "I thought then," explained Edwards later, "that he just wanted to play, so I got a pitcher of water, said, 'here, catch,' and tossed it into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Tweet-Tweet | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...epilogue (on the importance of refrigeration) showed evidence of greater theatrical cunning, reminiscent of Pirandello. Discovered at stage center is a bright red Coca-Cola cooler. Enters a Coke field man, who begins talking about refrigeration. Suddenly a loudspeaker hidden in the cooler's cool interior cries out: "Stop talking! I can speak for myself." Coke man hurriedly exits, Cooler continues: "I'm a 24-hour salesman ... I advertise the product, I cool the product, I present your product attractively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Sun Never Sets On Cacoola | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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