Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and sixty-five other days that come but once every year, the 22nd of February is one of the more pleasant variety. March has an unfortunate habit of producing such unpleasantnesses as theses, hour examinations and overdue blizzards in amazing quantity, and Washington's birthday furnishes a welcome calm before the storms...
...learned yesterday that a survey is being made of the Charles River Basin in order to secure a course nearer the Boston side where the water is more calm. If its is possible to do so, a two mile course without any curves may be laid out starting near the new Cottage Farm Bridge and ending at the Cambridge Bridge. The present course is one and three quarter miles in length...
Into the welter of sensationalism aroused about a scientist who is reported to believe in "special creation". Professor Mather strikes a calm and refreshing note in his article in today's CRIMSON. His careful study of the paper which gave rise to the exciting story shows it to be little more than a reformulation of the mutation theory of evolution. It is not Man who is the "special creation" but the whole vertebrate kingdom. Mr. Clark's unorthodoxy, evidently, is merely that he cannot trace any evolutionary relationship between the lowest from of fish and the invertebrate kingdom...
Then in through the door that took the typhoon wafted a mild breeze, smiling slightly, somewhat unfamiliar but with an apparent calm assurance: quick-eyed, with greying hair, quietly energetic, deedy. Ralph E. Renaud, until recently managing editor of the New York Evening Post, went to work at the desk of the departed whirlwind. His duties were to be the same but his title was Managing Editor, not Executive Editor. It was expected that Publisher Ralph Pulitzer would not give Renaud so free a hand as he had given Swope...
With or without premises, the book is extraordinary reading, a calm, clear view of what goes on beyond the newspaper headlines. It is not a book for the sentimental or morbid...