Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Agitator. Either because of police vigilance or because his radical sympathizers decided for once that a demonstration might prejudice his case, the trial of Tom Mooney in San Francisco was completely calm. As a world public now knows...
...Outward bound for Australia after the 1929 grain race, he was sailing the barque Herzogin Cecilie when she rolled over on her beam ends. He managed to right her and sail on. In the 1932 race he sailed the Parma through Horn hurricanes, South Atlantic ice and North Atlantic calm into Falmouth Bay in the winning time of 103 days, beating 19 other skippers, nine of whom he had trained himself. About that voyage Alan Villiers wrote a book: Grain Race (currently published in the U. S. by Scribner...
...there appears in the June Number an article entitled "President Lowell and his Influence." Its author is a Harvard man, F. P. Keppel but not one of that large portion of graduates who have at least a little finger in a little portion of the administrational pie. He writes calmly and with an open mind, covering firstly President Lowell himself, then his theories, his accomplishments, and his mistakes. It is evident that the calm method, combined with that strong admiration which most people feel in the presence of President Lowell's works, is sufficient to cover...
Conditions for the race were excellent; only a slight breeze was blowing, and almost absolute calm prevailed. It was Coach Whiteside's first opportunity to test out the crew which he rehabilitated last week. Since the return of Bacon to number 6 after the triangular regatta a fortnight ago, Varsity practice has consisted only in easy paddles designed to reorient the crews and to get Bacon back into shape by easy stages...
...quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog." The "Scholar War Lord" Wu Pei-fu. not satisfied with this formula, took Li into his home and was lectured on "how to get the most out of each century" by maintaining "inward calm." Some said he had buried 23 wives, was living with his 24th. a woman of 60, had descendants of eleven generations. The fingernails of his venerable right hand were six inches long. Yet to skeptical Western eyes he looked much like any Chinese 60-year-old. In 1930 Professor...