Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon intelligent consideration alone, but the influence and importance of the emotions is only beginning to be understood. When I studied economics in college, I do not believe anybody mentioned the importance of psychological factors. The trained mind was never so badly needed to make its contribution of calm rational thought as against the emotional unthinking reactions of so-called discontent...
...Marshal of the Admiralty went ahead in his carriage; the Deputy Marshal carried the Silver Oar; the two City Marshals would not have been out of the picture for any money. It was a brave company, and not the least brave was Captain William Kidd, looking with a calm, unflinching eye on the vulgar herd waiting for the final scene in his romantic career. He was not the first of his profession to go to Execution Dock, which, as Stow has reminded us, was the usual scene of execution for hanging of pirates and sea-rovers at the low-water...
...Christmas Eve it is the custom here for the sophomores to go about to the various dormitories and to the houses of the community and sing the Christmas carols which they have been practising for weeks. This year Christmas Eve was calm and clear and the ancient carols...
Anyone who goes to the Union tonight expecting to see the traditional knight of the gum-shoe will be sadly disappointed in W. J. Burns. He has all the uncanny genius of a Sherlock Holmes, but he combines it with the calm, every-day matter-of-factness of the average American business executive. As organizer of one of the greatest detective bureaus of the world, he has probably contributed more to the science of detecting crime than anyone living; but it is for his achievements single-handed in his pooneer days that he is most famous. Mr. Burns has crowded...
...idea that the gentleman in the adjoining cave would get wise to the trick. No; we should not delude ourselves. We must grow accustomed to the military plagiarism of the "insurgents"; they have no sense of honor--never having attended Harvard--and we must prepare ourselves to accept with calm dignity the news of bombs dropped from the sky on railroad roundhouses, coal operators' homes, and--gracious--perhaps the White House...