Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...retain the interest of the faculty, which is to dine in this room. So the theme became a sprouting, glaucous verdure, an image of the idea of growing. Green, as a soothing, quieting, and appetizing color. To contain enough variations towards more exciting yellow shades as well as towards cooler bluish tints. But green, as rich and juicy as possible without becoming aggressive...
Norther. In El Paso, Police Chief W. C. Woolverton sighed and announced that he was adding policemen to the force: "Cooler weather always brings more crime. People seem to eat more, wear more and steal more...
Willing But Beset. There was some truth, but a lot of exaggeration in this alarming picture. Last week it was possible to get a clearer and cooler idea of the "Puerto Rican problem." Even Marcantonio's hold on the immigrants was not what it once was. Mayor William O'Dwyer's administration had done a lot to cut down Marcantonio's power, by installing Spanish-speaking teachers and relief workers in the neighborhood, thus convincing the new people that someone besides Vito Marcantonio took an interest in them...
There had been no table pounding, no angry words. Every day the company brought in coffee & doughnuts during the afternoon break. A union negotiator enlivened the tedious hours of debate by dumping half a dozen goldfish into the water cooler. Within the first weeks, the negotiators had come to terms on most fringe issues...
...friendly salesman, of course, does not argue, does not sample the merchandise in the store, does not interrupt when the dealer says something, does not make remarks to women customers. He keeps his mind on the cooler (a subject which takes six hours of lectures and demonstrations alone), sees that it is properly stocked, and that the Coke is placed nearest the cooling unit...