Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conte di Savoid was her $1,000,000 worth of Sperry gyroscopes, installed to keep the ship from rolling. To spite a lifeboat load of admirals, engineers, and college technicians who crossed on the Conte di Savoia to observe their gyro-stabilizers' action, seas remained resolutely calm, and the gyros had no fair test. One day, to show what they could do, the stabilizers were purposely reversed, rocked the ship 10°. Apart from stability, speed is the great feature of the Conte di Savoia. She and the Rex were built by the Italian Line to cut two days...
Meeting in Indianapolis last week, the Federal Council of The Churches of Christ in America settled its affairs with calm and dispatch. After electing Rev. Dr. Albert William Beaven, evangelical Baptist, its new president (TIME, Dec. 12), the Council gave its vice-presidency, a new office, to Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Presbyterian moderator. The Council's structure was tightened up, its meeting times changed from quadrennial to biennial, in accordance with committee recommendations which were practically all approved. Deferred until 1934 was a proposal to let the Federal Council administer for its constituents such activities as they...
While his secretaries tried to calm Senor Azana, Royalist Deputy Martin de Velasco taunted "You. Senor Premier, acting like a Dictator, have discharged judges all over Spain to substitute your own! You have...
...years pass and memories of that unified spirit that characterized the nation in the vigorous prosecution of the World War becomes somewhat vague, there continues to grow a calm and determined insistence that opportunity shall continue to exist whereby the sons of Harvard may prepare themselves to serve as commissioned officers in case of a national emergency involving the use of the armed forces. Happily the R.O.T.C. serves this useful purpose while the student is an undergraduate...
...slowly, tiredly. He followed a narrow, twisting corridor to a door marked PRIVATE, went in, hung up his big, loose overcoat, his black, broad-brimmed felt hat. He was early, but at the opening performance there was never any telling when a call might come for Mr. Gatti to calm some backstage confusion. Gatti had been early for 24 other opening nights. His contract has three years to run. But if this 25th opening night should be his last it would not do to break his record. The curtain call sounded and since it was the season's opening...