Word: calming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Methodists convened at Manhattan were less calm, more specific, about a similar situation in their own Asiatic mission field. Speaking before the Men's Methodist Council, Religious Dean Edmund D. Soper, Duke University, waxed satirical, pessimistic. Said he: "China, Japan, India wonder why we who would teach them have slaughtered each other in thousands, why we refuse to hold all races equal in our countries, why we will not hear both sides of questions. . . . We ask ourselves what is next, and we have no next. We have shot our bolt...
...Square--but even journalists believe with Franklin that collective banging surpasses individual endeavor along that line. So it is with they utmost sincerity that the CRIMSON commends these students from beyond Central Square who wantoned in the evening hours of Thursday. Only by such little get-togethers can the calm, peaceful placidity of Harvard Square assume truly collegiate proportions...
When the Reverend S. F. Gilman, 1811, wrote in such fanciful terms of Harvard shining as a star "calm rising through change and through storm," he was nearer the cold, stellar truth than he knew. For there is a star, or rather an asteroid, bearing the name of John Harvard through the outer reaches of the universe...
...fast. Pilot Dinsmore had glided into the choppy sea as best he could, but not without pitching overboard one of his passengers, one Peter Kanevaros of Jaffersonville, Ind. While the gentleman from Indiana was bobbing up and paddling back to the plane, Pilot Dinsmore quickly instructed his remarkably calm companions. They broke a cabin window and chopped a hole in the roof. They took posts on the broad wings and fuselage as they were told, distributing weight as evenly as possible to help the fabric keep them afloat. They were a little scared. The ship's heavy engines were...
HEAVEN TREES?Stark Young? Scribner ($2). When Critic Stark Young of the New Republic was a small boy, he lived (he now pretends) on a big, easygoing plantation near Memphis. It was called "Heaven Trees," a place of calm walks and lawns, fragrant with myrtle and syringa. His gentle Southern kinfolk were surrounded with their slaves, cottonfields and traditional propertied indolence, the men riding blooded horses and holding long argument over cold juleps; the ladies, pert and lovely to behold, keeping the large household continually open to visitors for a night, a week, a year...