Word: calmly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...caused by an ant which was brought out by means of a ladle of water. The story is well told. "Un Roi de France" and "The Hoss-Thief" are tales of murder and sudden death. In the first, one does not fully sympathize with Pierre in his heroic calm while the flames of the burning building licked his feet. But "then mercifully, he fainted," which, of course, makes his end less horrible. The story of the "hoss-thief" is told thirty years afterward with appropriate scenic effects...
...stream above the Stillman Infirmary. The University eight rowed in the same order as Tuesday, with the exception of No. 2, which was filled by Coach Wray in the absence of Lunt. Coach Stephenson followed the other crews in a single, and as the river was calm, he was able to drill the men in blade work...
...Smith compared the quiet home life and calm business career of fifty years ago with the conventional customs and frenzied haste of today. Fortunate is the man who was brought up in his youth by a wise mother and father of the old type--parents whose sole aim was to educate their children in the ways of simplicity and true happiness. Today the seemingly successful man is so engrossed in his own interest that many external affairs which contain the real pleasures of life are excluded. He has no time for vacation, for the joys of home life...
...spirit of the older Harvard. In "Academic Leisure" a plea is made for a real leisure in the life of our higher institutions of learning, and an active opposition by these institutions of "worship of energy and the frantic eagerness for action" in favor of "an atmosphere of calm reflection...
...Calm rising thro' change and thro' storm...