Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seņor Aguero of Cuba then moved adjournment "to give the delegates an opportunity for calm reflection...
...analytic mind, the first enquiry will be, was it strategy that placed the gentle Emerson so near this spelling that it might bask in his calm effulgence? He was a little radical in some things and boldly said that if we had no Greek or Latin, then we should read the ancients with a trot, though he expressed it a little differently. But what he would have said about these quick-lunch spellings is not so certain...
...customers came in throngs, but calm throngs. It was the public's market, with a ticker 15 or 20 minutes late and no frenzied strain watching for the plays of professionals on the floor. The usual large figures were pushed right out of the picture...
Another pleasant surprise of the Maryland game was Scott's feat in kicking two long field goals. Although he had a strong wind with him, either of them would have been good for forty yards on a calm day. These were the first dropkicks scored by Yale this year, and supporters of the Blue were becoming fearful lest this defect might prove an important factor in the big games ahead. Scott is also a first-class defensive back, in-fact almost the equal of Allen. If the speedy Tiger backs rip through the Yale line as they did through Harvard...
...around the president of the National Security League, who has taken the leadership to expel Countess Catherine Karolyi of Hungary, one time associate of Bela Kun. None know so well as these arch-guardians of national safety by what a slim thread it hangs in these times of deceptive calm. One puff from an inflamed Bolshevik and the whole political and social structure will come tumbling about the ears of hapless multitudes in this peaceful and contented land. A stitch in time will save, not nine, but a hundred million souls from instant destruction...