Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Times, an august and dignified daily rivals the London Times in accuracy, completeness and austerity. General Motors Corporation, too, prides itself upon the calm, quiet, proper manner in which it conducts its advertising and the absence of the "girl appeal" motive from its promotional schemes...
...Women's Championship at Summit, N. J., Medalist Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page, according to everybody's expectations, did not survive the third round. This year at Memphis, again medalist in the women's national tournament. Mrs. Page refused to be flustered, stayed calm even through such matches as one in which her opponent after a lusty swing lost her skirt. So last week Mrs. Page met 19-year-old Patty Berg, runner-up to Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare in the national tournament two years ago, in the final...
Just as when a stone is cast into a calm pool and the ripples spread surely onto every farthest bit of the shore, so the death of Thomas Nelson Perkins shocks his friends at home and is felt in all distant countries touched by his work on Reparations. The public praise heaped upon his career at the bar and in industry and banking cannot hide in his friends' minds the memory of a genial counselor, just as generous in his efforts as sage in his advice, nor can Harvard in particular forget the thirty years Mr. Perkins spent as Fellow...
...directly downward. At least two dozen flying fish of lengths varying from 18 to 24 in. were attracted to this lighted area. At intervals one or two seals came alongside, either in search of a meal, or else to play and sport with the fish. The weather was flat calm- no wind, water motionless, with barely perceptible swells. When swimming easily-not excited-the flying fish used their wings, not so much to assist their swimming speed as to increase their maneuvrability. Their main propulsion is by the very powerful tail...
...British Association for the Advancement of Science which got under way last fortnight at Nottingham (TIME, Sept. 13), and concluded its sessions last week, tidy, calm-browed Dr. Dorothy M. Wrinch of Oxford described her latest discoveries about the architecture of molecules. She showed a model of protein molecules which she had built after working them out mathematically. One typical globular molecule looked like a crocheted doily cut up and sewed together in a three-dimensional geometrical object. This she described as a "polyhexagonal lacelike pattern of atoms with the characteristic lacunae or holes, the whole forming a truncated tetrahedron...