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Word: calmness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Brooklyn, Ruth Galfas, 14 months old, caught a greedy chunk of banana in her windpipe; her father Hyman, frantic, ran with her to a drug store, was intercepted by Patrolman Francis Ryan. Patrolman Ryan, calm, dislodged the banana lump; the baby seemed dead. Patrolman Ryan, resourceful, put a handkerchief over her mouth and breathed down her throat for 20 minutes. She revived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby Breath | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Grantland Rice, usually calm, said: "Dempsey struck Sharkey two foul blows. ... As Sharkey apparently doubled up in pain, Dempsey followed with a left hook to the jaw and Sharkey . . . fell, squarely on his face, writhing as if in deepest agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Opinion | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Sure you can," said a stout gentleman. "Be calm. Just go ahead and 'tend to Mr. Flinn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country Doctor | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Frederick Maurice sat down and penned a long, calm, deadly review which was released last week in the July issue of that distinguished U. S. quarterly Foreign Affairs. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Fables in History | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

This small passenger sat with tight shut eyes as Major di Bernardi gave his ship the "gun," sent it roaring down the field, pulled back his joy stick, took off in a flashing swoop. Then, amid the calm speed of upper air strata, the eyes of passenger Vittorio Mussolini, 11, son of II Duce, opened. Regaining his composure he, later, peeped and peered over the edge of his cockpit, at Italia, far below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Real Flyer | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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