Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primo Camera, gigantic Italian fisticuffer, heard a fire alarm ring near the Park Plaza, his Manhattan headquarters. All agog, he rushed to the street, discovered firemen putting out a small blaze in the Plaza annex, would not calm himself until he had used his great paws to help screw a fire-hose to a hydrant...
...long signal drill combined with a dummy scrimmage intended to get all the plays to perfection was the fare of the Harvard football squad in its workout yesterday. The session was calm compared with the scrimmage of the day before but Coach Horween's men will get another good workout today when they mix with the Freshmen...
Buenos Aires was Bedlam. But steadily, methodically, hour after hour General Uriburu was bringing fresh troops from suburban garrisons into the Capital. With masterly skill he organized calm, drove the Irigoyenist shotgun-toters off the streets, proved that counter revolution worthy of the name had never existed, made himself highly popular with men of property...
Karl Payer, Socialist Deputy who had helped organize the park mass meeting, suddenly grew frightened at the turn of events, tried to calm the rioters. He had to flee for his life. Like locusts the workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
...second of the final official trials, in a high sea and a racing wind. Yankee, racing Whirlwind, made better time than Enterprise that day, and was matched with Enterprise to see how the two would come out in moderate conditions. But bad weather-this time a calm-spoiled the race as it had spoiled five out of seven attempted tests. Enterprise was ahead when this last test was called off. "We feel," said Secretary Cormack of the Cup committee, "that she is the most dependable boat in all kinds of weather." Next day Enterprise flew all her flags in celebration...