Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated by President Lowell, France will be benefitted very little by her act and at the same time Germany, will suffer as her industries will be crippled. In the same way all Europe is at loggerheads and what is needed today more than all else is clear, calm, and profound thought...
...read those mysteries and legends, and enough of the West to enable him to read those mysteries in a cold white light, he has drawn a picture that cannot be set down in a few words. He begins these chapters with a memorable overture: . . . I came to know the calm, good and honest Mongolian people; I read their souls, saw their sufferings and hopes; I witnessed the whole horror of their oppression and fear before the face of Mystery, there where Mystery pervades all life. I watched the rivers during the severe cold break with a rumbling rear their chains...
Slow rowing was once more the order of the day for the two University crews at their new quarters on Boston Harbor yesterday afternoon. The water was calm and in spite of the rain, each crew covered approximately three miles during the course of the practice...
...book is a series of pictures--magnificent pictures of life and human passions--and through them all the magnificent figure of the great Cathedral towers; calm, unchangeable, a silent witness of the struggles and petty trials of the human puppets who swarm at its feet...
...This vast territory is as complex racially as is Europe. Made up as it is of such a heterogeneous collection of races, it is not difficult to see why there has never been any permanent calm in the country. In regard to religion, the process of change is not new. Budhism swept over India centuries ago, and then receded. It is now slowly regaining its place among the people...