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...Charles Blagden ... went into a room where the heat was 1° or 2° above 260° F., and remained eight minutes in this situation, frequently walking about to all the different parts of the room, but standing still most of the time in the coolest spot where the heat was above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...lines. He told an awesome story of the destruction wreaked by U.S. airmen on German transport: the freight train on which he started toward Germany had taken eleven days to cover 80 miles, had three different locomotives on the journey. Reported a fellow fugitive: Jock was the coolest of all the prisoners, keeping up a blow-by-blow description of U.S. planes strafing the train. In sportsmanlike fashion, Whitney started a poker game in the boxcar, lost consistently. Jock said that he had such a good time he nearly forgot to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Alarms & Excursions | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Also very much on the social side, we've been doin' a little extracurricular snoopin' to try to arrange a mixed swim at the Natatorium some evening. The idea is Ken Schuette's and we think it's the coolest idea yet. Mebbe more later on same...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 6/25/1943 | See Source »

Commandos Strike at Dawn (Columbia) is the coolest, most workmanlike job of fighting that Hollywood has yet produced. This authentic picture of the devil dogs of this war has none of the phony nourishes or mushy fantasy of most Hollywood war films; in it is hardly a melodramatic line. A Norway raid is carried out with letter-perfect realism. Yet for all its realism the raid is strangely unexciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 18, 1943 | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...found a British liaison officer, who was driving a bus, trying to pick up wounded from the fires, trying to get food to the Chinese division to which he was attached-doing many jobs at once in the coolest manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE SOLDIER MOANED: MA MA! | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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