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Word: calmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dunster House inhabitants were started out of their traditional Anglophile calm yesterday by the appearance of a massive radio aerial stretching form the clock tower off somewhere in the general direction of Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MASSIVE ANTENNA DANGLES FROM TOP OF DUNSTER TOWER | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

...this is more due to Mr. Howard's determination to create an original Hamlet than from any lack of power. He conveys the effect of almost an unwillingness to believe the accusations of the Ghost at first, and later skillfully avoids the perennial charge of procrastination by the calm, detached manner in which he builds the case against Claudius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/20/1936 | See Source »

...assured that the mule will be brunet in type and of a calm and equitable dispesition, but we cannot guarantee where its sympathies will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Derivation of Cadet Mule Leaves Sympathies of West Point Cadet in Doubt | 10/17/1936 | See Source »

...advertise or not to advertise: that question has disturbed the inner calm of the New York Stock Exchange ever since the nation's first market place began to feel the Depression impact of public hostility. Even after a revolt of the membership boosted Charles R. Gay into presidency of the Exchange on what was supposed to be a New Deal platform, the idea of advertising remained unpalatable to the Governors. It was quite proper that President Gay should stump from coast-to-coast in an effort to "educate" the public. But to do it with the written word, bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Market Marketed | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...does he bemuse when he means to be gay. He has a gift for phrase; and, when under control, he communicates his point, quote: "If only all students were 'great men', all would be well. But alas, many are not, and in them indifference is no true neutral, philosophical calm, no objective judgment, but rather a petty reserve which too often excludes its possessor from lively interests. The reaction to the Cross-system has resulted in what Dr. Johnson would have described as an infelicitous congress of inharmonious invidualities . . . It is still Utopian to imagine that any university will attempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

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