Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calm and reasoned argument, replete with facts and figures, seasons the pages of opinions and accordingly the views expressed will obtain a much more favorable hearing than had they been clad in the devil-angel garb which not infrequently characterizes "magazines with a bias...
...himself, went through his act without a hitch. Another mike-fever victim was pop-eyed Joan Crawford, who was so scared during her first performance that she had to remain seated through it. As part of his job as Lux Radio's sage, De Mille has to calm such agitated performers. His favorite actors among those who have appeared in the show are Joel McCrea, Fredric March and Barbara Stanwyck, whom he describes as "sincere." Miss Stanwyck insists on going shoeless when she broadcasts...
...appointments. In the year and a half ending last winter hundreds of students and dozens of undergraduate organizations including Phi Bota Kappa and the Student Council petitioned President Conant to reconsider administrative decisions. This storm of protest, precipitated by the dismissal of ten assistant professors in 1939, penetrated the calm atmosphere of the Faculty room last fall, where a number of well-attended and heated sessions took place. The storm petered out last winter, and later it was announced that two of the ten men had been retained on the teaching staff...
...grey-paneled calm of the office of the U. S. Army's Chief of Staff, the confusion of war, the hurly-burly of U. S. rearmament seemed far away. Beyond the Venetian blinds the rain fell, streaking the stuccoed walls of the War Department's shoddy Munitions Building, glazing the black asphalt of Washington's Constitution Avenue. Seated before old Phil Sheridan's ornately carved desk, spare, grey General George Catlett Marshall, in summer mufti, talked to 25 newsmen at his weekly press conference...
...issue of the British journal Na ture which reached the U. S. last week, a new approach to absolute zero, suggested by several investigators, was explained by Dr. Charles Galton Darwin. He is the calm, pipe-smoking director of the Na tional Physical Laboratory, grandson of Evolution's great Charles Darwin. In effect the method is to work down as far as possible with the magnetism of molecules, then continue with the magnetism in the nuclei (cores) of the atoms themselves. In this way, researchers can plausibly expect to get down to one hundred-thousandth, possibly to one millionth...