Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this respect, it is a plan which might well be followed by other sections of the University, where no exam is ever graded on time, and where the rule is made to fit the case as it arises, with consequent loss of time and money. Sentimental lovers of the calm and gentle may grumble, and cling to their outworn ways; the cold, gem-like flame that animation the bowels of Converse will burn on, unflickering...
...attitude to become the victims of the egotism of Mr. Perkins, and the suavity of his mistress and secretary, Miss Bates. But the one-sided encounter must have a turning point, and that comes when the hen-pecked Middle Western husband overcomes the "savoin-faire" of Miss Bates by calmly waiting all day with her for Mr. Perkins in the latter's hotel suite; the result is that Mr. Perkins is almost forced, upon his return, to reliquish his condition of single blessedness in order that the Middle Western husband may be relieved of his unloving wife...
...Calm as a badger, up rose Idaho's wrinkled Borah, seldom the man to stop a good fight. He wanted to make way for an amendment to the Glass bill which would make it less obnoxious to the Long faction. He asked for unanimous consent to limit further debate on the bill in a proposal tantamount to cloture. "If we cannot secure agreement," he added grimly, "I myself am going to make a speech." He secured agreement...
...Bloodgood's maddened cancer patients Dr. Cowles expects to calm with reason, compel with sense. Dr. Cowles will divide his time between Baltimore and Manhattan (traveling by plane), beginning soon after New Year's. How he deals with neurotic patients Dr. Bloodgood does not much care. Dr. Bloodgood's prime interest is to see many cancer cases, and to see them early in their disease...
Special Message. The French default produced in Congress a brief flare-up of reprisal talk?$5,000 passport fees, bans on French securities. President Hoover, more calm, waited four days to see if France would change from nonpayment to delayed payment. When she did not he sent a special message to Congress, reviewing the debt situation and outlining a general plan of action he was prepared to initiate, regardless of legislative authority. He would promptly link debts, disarmament and world economics, granting no reductions on the first without compensating advantages to the U. S. on the other two. Because such...