Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...achieve this great end, the leading nations of this continent will one day have to come together in order to draw up, accept and guarantee a statute on a comprehensive basis which will insure for them all a sense of security, of calm-in short, of peace...
...drive a bargain with the Soviet Union rather than simply capitulate. Instead of going to Moscow himself, Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko sent his diplomatic subordinate, the Finnish Minister to Sweden Juho Paasikivi, a onetime Premier of Finland, now President of the Finnish Foreign Trade Association. "We are calm and feel not the slightest nervousness!" cried Finnish Premier Aimo Cajander, while letting it be known that reservists were being rushed to strengthen Finland's defenses along the Soviet frontier. It was assumed that Dictator Stalin would demand the "lease" of several small Finnish islands near Leningrad and that this...
...Berlin, Publisher Conde Nast told Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase and Vanity Fair's Editor Frank Crowninshield that he had just found the ideal art director for his U. S. string of swank magazines. The latest candidate had clinched the job by the calm disdain with which he dismissed able, dapper Publisher Nast's theories on illustration and makeup. This Young Turk was in fact a young Turk, by name Mehemed Fehmy Agha. That was ten years ago. Last week PM, the lively little magazine for production managers and art directors, devoted its latest issue...
...same room with the Derain painting are other fine examples of nineteenth and twentieth century art. We are fortunate in being able to see. Picasso's portrait of "Fernand Olivier," and find in the treatment of line and the philosophic calm an unmistakable declaration of indebtedness to some of the Chinese artists whose works are exhibited on the floor below. Subtle variations in the width and shape of lines, together with the apparently effortless rendition of form by means of this mode, serve to bring out clearly one phase of Picasso's electicism. Despite the fact that no single part...
...point of view in the neutrality controversy has been expressed by Harvard's Jerome D. Greene in a Boston Herald article notable for its logic and calm. Had this article been written some two decades ago, it might very well have been taken for an utterance, likewise reasonable and collected, of Woodrow Wilson. The specific line of argument and the names mentioned may differ. But the broad sentiments outlined, the implications drawn, and finally the social myths preached are identical...