Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreigners in Shanghai are disposed to be calm; but a few sense danger, point out that war risk insurance has risen from last year's $4 per $1,000 per year to the present $16 to $22 per $1,000 per month...
...town is the business, hotel and amusement centre of modern Denver. South and east of the Civic Centre spreads the large, calm residential section, its wide tree-lined avenues running sedately north and south, its citizens moving soberly along them on Sunday mornings to Denver's many churches. Like most second-generation frontier towns, Denver is strongly moral. It has a stern respect for conventional art, religion, home, womanhood. When Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, after brilliant service in the Juvenile Court, declared that scarcely 10% of Denver's high-school girls were virgins and campaigned nationally for Companionate Marriage, Denver...
Mark Sullivan Notes a Calm Confidence; Obstacles to Recovery Are Gone
...service, he had to go. At first he tried to deceive his mother by telling her he was to go aboard a Zeppelin, which was supposed to be safer than an airplane. But when one Zeppelin after another was brought down in flames, he had to calm her by admitting he was a plane pilot...
...public is familiar. Night Flight, a second novel, is a brief account of disaster on the South American airmail. Fabien, carrying the mail from the far South to Buenos Aires, flies through a golden twilight in which "night was rising like a tawny smoke." Presently the evening becomes less calm. At the airport, Rivière, "who was responsible for the entire service," waits anxiously for Fabien and two other mail planes to arrive. Rivière's aim is to "love the men under your orders but do not let them know it." Cold hostility for the minor...