Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gaston Lachaise summers in a Georgetown, Me. farmhouse where he raises ducks. In Manhattan he lives in a studio with no telephone in Washington Mews. Ascetic, hardworking, he goes to an occasional cinema or burlesque, rarely to parties. Although he works at fever pitch he tries to calm himself by muttering "Now I am working very coldly, very accurately." When this fails, he takes a subway ride...
Northern children with incompleted spines usually die young. In the climatically calm South they are apt to grow up, a condition which explains the high rate of spina bifida in balmy South Carolina...
...again beating Weetamoe. For the third race, there was a light breeze. Over 30 miles, windward and leeward from Brenton's Reef Lightship to a buoy off Block Island and back, Rainbow won for the third time in a row while Yankee, considered a slow boat in calm weather, surprised the committee by running away from Weetamoe...
...atmosphere of order at Sir Oswald Mosley's monster Fascist mass meeting in Olympia (TIME, June 18). pained Sir John beyond expression. In the House of Commons he explained the traditional British theory that policemen need not be present inside a public meeting to create order, but achieve calm by their mere presence around the building...
...unAmerican, unethical and downright unpatriotic. In the zoo of horrifying future events, it remains the most ferocious tiger of them all. Unalarmed by roars that are still caged Author Soule has examined the nature of the beast, pointed out the size and thickness of the bars, and in the calm tones of an oldtime liberal announced that it would be some time before the audience would have to start running for its life. After analyzing the nature of revolution, its causes and symptoms, Author Soule proceeds to fit current U. S. history to this revolutionary pattern, finds that...