Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...values comparable to the joys of the out-of-doors. We gain less from the other forms in moral stature, in renewed purpose in life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish...
More than any other need of these hurried times is that of calm thinking and sharp differentiations. If this Boston stock broker had looked up in such a dictionary as college teachers often edit the meaning of the word, "socialist", had he studied this notorious legal case, he would never have written such bunk...
John Harvard, Esquire, seated before University Hall in the jade calm of many years of honest effort likes his Sunday afternoon peace as well as the rest of mankind. He does...
These are the days when the calm of Harvard's classrooms is punctuated by bursts of significant applause. Nor are these reverberating acclamations merely expressions of long restrained energy, connotative of a schoolboy glee that school is out and playtime has arrived. In the first place playtime has not arrived nor will it for more than two laborious weeks; and secondly, if these plaudits are those of gratitude. It is gratitude for past lectures not present release nor future relaxations...
...devoid of sensations as sitting in a placid hammock-except when the air is "bumpy." Air currents shooting up over hills and mountains, diving down over seashore cliffs and into valleys, make flying bumpy, cause a plane to rise or sink suddenly. Even on a day that is calm and sunshiny, there may be bumps...