Word: calme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From a night of calm security I rose, as did thousands about me, to the day's work. But before I could leave my room the steam whistles of all the great industries in the great city and of all the steam craft in its great harbor began to blow.; to bellow and scream and roar and wail in unnumbered voices that presently fused into one and rolled down through hundreds of miles of streets into the open country...
...machine gun bullets of smelling his gas and then scrambling into nose-bags, of eating one meal a day on feast days, and none at all on fast days, of staying aware day and night except for an, occasional forty winks stolen when things were more or less calm--in fact six days of pleasant contact with Mr. Boche, which, however, totalled up for all the outfits along the line, smashed his drive on the nose and started him going backwards. Then we moved out--up to the river the first day, and across the second, and on into...
There is but one thing for the civilian population to do: keep calm. We must continue our daily work as before and let the Navy worry about the U boats. If we object too strongly to submarines we had best enlist and fight them with guns, not loiter around and fight with words. The Germans considered the Scarborough vandalism a victory and they soon found out that it was merely acting as a stimulus for British recruiting. If the same takes place here, the U boats' journey will have been well worth while...
Knox and Adams in the Yale boat toppled over exhausted, but were soon revived. J. F. Linder '19 of the University crew succumbed to the heat, but was aided from his seat upon reaching the float. Though the calm water was ideal for rowing, the intense humidity and lack of breeze caused the oarsmen great suffering...
That was 48 years ago. That eager will has not relaxed. That calm, clear intelligence is not less insistent in its demands. There is the same impatience with things as they are and the resolve to change them in the interest of things as they ought to be. I am not sure that the octogenarian is not still open to the criticism of middle-aged persons that he "wants to do too many things at once." In any organization to which he belongs you will find him pulling at the tugs with all his might, in the tranquil assurance that...