Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tiger went wild and made a big killing on Saturday, the Army mule balked in more than mulish obstinacy, a Boston college back missed a crucial goal after touchdown, and three of Joe Forecast's predictions collapsed without a murmur. Such trifling disasters as these, however, hardly ruffled the calm surface of his self-satisfaction, for he had defied a legion of sport editors, the table of comparative scores and the whole city of Providence in picking Harvard to win, and by the margin of three points is his prediction justified...
...bombardment was then "suspended" while General Sarrail allegedly demanded $500,000 in gold and the surrender of 3,000 rifles by prominent Damascenes, under threat of opening fire anew. Naturally those of whom the demands were made "undertook to fulfill them." The situation became "calm...
...fear that some blighting degeneracy has seized upon the men of Cambridge since his time. With several major defeats stamped in Harvard's football history of the past few years and with a record this season of three victories and two defeats to date, how can the uncomfortable undergraduate calm the suspicions of the disgruntled alumnus...
This is the story of Samuel M. Ralston's rise in politics. His de- parture from it was equally dignified and calm. Since early in September he had been ill with uremic poisoning. He recognized that he had not long to live; so he bade his family and friends good-by last week at his bedside in his Indianapolis home and one morning slipped into unconsciousness. Twenty-two hours later he died...
...removed from the mundane midst of American mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another agrarian movement robs Mexico of a delight in Shelley, and the bullets of the next candidate for the presidency penetrate the calm of Dr. Finlev's southern sanctum, he may prefer the powder of the northern classroom to the powder of his departed Utopia...