Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When such evidently prejudiced legislation is looked upon with disgust by all nations the international tension will be relieved and we shall all be able to live in the calm happiness of brotherhood. Love, not only of mother for quintuplets, not only of vaudeville entrepreneurs for packed houses, but love of neighbor for neighbor, man for man, will lead us to that glorious millenium for which all thinking men strive. Such proposals are but stumbling blocks in the path to progress, and the sooner they can be removed from the international scene the sooner mankind will be happy...
...price that metal had enjoyed in 40 years. Mining stocks had a flurry on all exchanges. Senators from silver States made speeches and urged new bills in Congress. International silver merchants excitedly bid up the world price to 65?. But the U. S. public and U. S. stockmarkets remained calm. Two years ago they would have frothed and foamed at such news but now it was old stuff. Stocks failed to bound upward. Pulses (outside the Senate) failed to beat faster...
...calm, dark evenings of high humidity, observers may occasionally see hundreds of fireflies scattered over a considerable area, all flashing in unison. The phenomenon has aroused such interest that since 1916 no less than 19 accounts of it have been printed in Science. Fortnight ago a 20th communication was published by John Bonner Buck of Johns Hopkins' Zoological Laboratory. Mr. Buck said he had induced synchronized flashing in fireflies with an electric torch, was thus able to shed new light on the reason for its natural occurrence...
...this musician gives a fair illustration of the modern method of tone production on this type of instrument whereby pressures are more concentrated about the mouth rather than throughout the head. Still the old notion persists that the oboe player eventually goes crazy, for only recently I had to calm such anxieties in the parent of a promising young musician...
Said Craig Wood: "What can you do to beat a guy like that?" Next day, after a 36-hole playoff, the question still remained unanswered. Completely calm after an experience which, by precedent, should have unnerved him, strutting around the course like a stocky, brown-faced gnome, swarthy little Sarazen won the tournament as he had promised friends he would do, 144 to Wood...