Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career approached its end, he confided that he had never quite been able to reconcile himself to one aspect of working in Manhattan. "New York's weather," he said, in a rare departure from his usual calm scientific detachment, "is lousy...
General Fu Tso-yi, Nationalist commander in the north, shattered the city's traditional calm. For a fortnight he had been pulling his troops back from one outlying position after another. His "North China Corridor" had been chopped up into three closets-Kalgan, Peiping, Tientsin. Everything looked ready for a surrender...
...served with distinction throughout the Mexican War, and of his exemplary conduct in the battle of Buena Vista said only, "I was under fire from 6 o.c. until 4." As artillery instructor at West Point, he taught the cadets with the same calm sobriety with which, during his Indian-fighting days, he removed an arrow from his chest...
...research is old stuff at CalTech, which has always gone in for rough and noisy engineering. But until World War II, Princeton's academic calm was almost unbroken. Toward war's end it went jet with a bang. The screaming roar of rockets and ramjets in the laboratory behind Palmer Stadium outshouted the football enthusiasts. Already the staff of the psychology department laboratory, next door, has decided to move to a quieter spot...
Arnold Toynbee, whose Study of History (a one-volume condensation of his work-in-progress) was a surprise bestseller of 1947, again was listed with an even more unlikely candidate, Civilization on Trial. In 13 scholarly essays he reaffirmed the large, calm view of history, taking the position that man might be destroyed but other formS of life would carry...