Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poughkeepsie. Washington or California almost always has the best college crew in the U. S. They have to go East to prove it. Last week, after Washington's junior varsity and freshmen had beaten the East's best, seven varsities pulled out on the calm Hudson to row four miles down stream. Of the Eastern crews-Columbia, Cornell, Navy, Penn and Syracuse-Cornell, heaviest in the race, looked best, but the two Westerners were favorites. In their own regatta, at Seattle last April, Washington had beaten California by three lengths but that was at three miles. California...
...long trial through which sleek Businessman Lucania sat with reptilian calm, his high-powered lawyers launched into a 13-hour summation for the defense, attacking the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses, declaring that strumpets had been taken on wild parties by the state in order to induce them to testify. Mr. Dewey contented himself with a seven-hour answer. Urging the jury not to spare Lucania, he declared: "Unless you are willing to convict the top man you might as well acquit everyone...
...families or by a court, and worldlings impelled to immure themselves by a sudden agony of remorse or access of faith. From these is recruited a third group, the "Magdalens," black-habited nuns who lead an austere contemplative life completely segregated from the other two. Cloistered shows many a calm, luminous face, including that of the plump, masterful Mother Superior. Accompanied by adroitly "dubbed" dialog, church music and a commentary by a U. S. priest named Rev. Matthew Kelly, the picture presents no conflict, reaches no climax, accepts without demur the phenomenon of women adopting a medieval mode of life...
...Board of Film Censors, a creation of the British film industry, he takes public responsibility for that organization's acts. Actual work he leaves mostly to a professional Cato, one J. Brooke Wilkinson, who works on the principle that any footage controversial enough to ruffle the customary calm of a cinema audience should be deleted...
...week when Roy N. Lotspeich, socialite president of Knoxville's big Appalachian Mills Co., came forward with $450,000, for which New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. turned over the paper's controlling interest, it was evident that the venerable Journal had once more sailed into calm publishing waters...