Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well-attended meeting was held in Sanders Theatre, addressed by Professor Prall and a leader of the English youth movement. In every way the meeting was a welcome contrast to the peace strikes sponsored in previous years by advocates of the olive branch at Harvard. It was orderly, calm, and drenched in the peaceful atmosphere most conducive to a protest for peace. On the other hand, the peace strikes of other years had been rendered futile by the ridicule and indifference of a Harvard community that considered the strike paradoxically militant. In 1935, the spring-feverish antics of Hitler-mustachioed...
...Chamber entirely dropped work, amused Deputies had eyes only for Herriot's box, the Premier's wife flushed beet red realizing that she had perhaps not behaved quite as the Premier's wife should, and devoted M. Blum hastily rushed upstairs to soothe her and calm the angry boxful with his suave tact...
Toward week's end the pace of metal speculation in both London and the U. S. slowed appreciably. Ominous reports that the British Government would step in, if speculators continued to boost the costs of rearmament, dampened London's ardor. But metals did not calm down until zinc had zoomed to the highest price in eleven years (7½ per lb.) and lead, in the heaviest trading in that heavy metal in the history of the New York Commodity Exchange, was whooped to 7¼? per lb., highest since...
...there are always a number of Freshmen, and those are the ones Dunster desires, who are grateful for the fact that there is still in Harvard College a place where calm and pleasant living in an atmosphere that is at once intellectually stimulating and lackadaisically insouciant is at a premium...
...Calm, Pleasant Atmosphere...