Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Wethered played with that calm concentration of hers which has the appearance of sheer boredom, while Miss Leitch, nervous before the start, gritted her teeth, stuck out her chin, and played with obvious fire and determination." Such was the cabled description of the fifth round of the British women's open golf championship at Portrush, Ireland. Joyce Wethered, "cool and collected," took the match from her older opponent by 6 up and 4 to play. Later she took the final round (7 & 6) from Mrs. F. Cautley "who was bothered by rain...
Matters rapidly reached such a pitch that Arnaldo, Benito's brother, wrote in II Popolo d'ltalia, Benito's organ, a special article urging calm and discipline until Benito returned from his travels...
...immediately after the war he was released from prison and reinstated in his fellowship. Again speaking of Russell's nature. Wesley C. Mitchell points out, Bertrand Russell possesses extraordinary courage. He has the moral intensity of a martyr, the intellectual confidence of a great logician, and the calm assurance of an English aristocrat." His experiences with human nature in its least tolerant mood during the war as one of an insignificant and most unpopular minority have not made him more steadfast in his purpose...
...fight for its adoption. The grave problem of its enforcement has rather tended to indicate that one very important aspect of the question was over-looked in the discussion which preceded the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment. If any question of its desirability remains, common sense calls for a calm and lucid debate. The example which Dr. Butler has set--obviously in defiance of his own best interests--of breaking a restraining silence to utter his honest convictions is one that deserves the respect of even those who disagree with...