Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speech. During World War I Woodrow Wilson canceled all press conferences. Mr. Roosevelt met the press, lectured them on what they might and might not print (see p. 62). He looked calm, rested, cheery, buoyant...
...With supreme confidence that, under your calm and determined leadership, we will retain our balance, despite foul blows...
...that America is at war. Although it was necessary that the usually impartial and impassive political magazine take some sort of stand on such big things as war declarations, the rare expression of opinion says little that has not been heard many times recently, and says it with a calm lack of inspiration...
Harvard is beginning, not ending, an era in its existence. The calm at University Hall is in sharp contrast to the confusion in the dormitories. For some of us--for a great many of us--the future consists of guns and ships and planes. For others it means different studies, harder work, longer hours. But for all of us the present should mean quiet thought and a serious orientation of ourselves in relation to the needs of the country...
Children who stutter seldom outgrow it without proper training. Nor can it be cured by such customs as holding pebbles in the mouth, swinging the arms, or crawling on all fours. Main goal of Dr. Greene's treatment is to calm down stutterers of all ages, make life easy for them...