Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomacy by treating the Platt Amendment as a dead letter, eschewing intervention, and extending immediate recognition and moral support to the present regime; or it can land troops in Cuba, restore order, and see that a stable representative government is established. The adoption of either of these courses would calm the chaotic situation now existing and make some sort of recovery possible for the unhappy island. Instead of doing this Secretary Hull has resurrected the thoroughly discredited Stimson Doctrine, which gained for its originator the soubriquet of "Wrong horse Harry," and applied it to Cuba. The effect of this...
...York Yacht Club, which holds the homely $500 flagon won by America 82 years ago, received news of the Sopwith challenge with its usual studied calm. Officials would say nothing until the formal challenge should arrive by mail. Then the procedure would be appointment of a cup committee, the issuance of invitations to individual members or syndicates of members to build defense candidates. Of the three yachts engaged in the defense against Shamrock V in 1930 only Weetamoe is in commission. She was bought by Banker Frederick Henry Prince of Boston and refitted according to the new rules...
...College settled down to a hard week's round of lectures, conferences, clinics and surmises, which President Haggard's further rhapsody on Women lightened. Cried Dr. Haggard, who has lived in Nashville, Tenn. most of his 61 years:* "The Apollo Belvedere,'with its magnificent forehead calm as Heaven, rises above eyes that follow the shaft he has sped. 'And the cold marble leaped to life a god.' Contrast the Belvedere with the Venus de Milo, the very eidolon of the female form, the Queen of the Loves; the head too small for great intellect...
...stories will be "Wild Mustard" by Andrew H. Brown '34, "Melody with Fugue" by Loughlin, and "October Calm" by Charles H. Newton...
...position, a Freshman would have touched his shivering knees to the ground with a awe-struck knees to the a Sophomore would have gazed in calm wonderment and passed on in a state of blissful superiority. But I, as a Junior--Well, I counted slowly up to ten, and then said in tragic tones; "Endure my heart, far worse hast thou endured...