Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress to kill the loan, it was clear that the Palestine issue had grown out of all perspective. Beyond the violence in Palestine, beyond even the plight of Europe's remaining million and a half Jews, were some past & present facts and some future probabilities which called for calm examination...
Explorer Beebe saw notably little from the windows of his dangling bathysphere. Professor Piccard hopes to see more. As two small electric propellers maneuver his submarine through the calm black depths at three miles an hour, two powerful arc lamps will light up the water around it. Automatic cameras will take ten pictures a second through conical quartz portholes...
...Ether. The ether had another valuable property: it was at rest-"the calm ether-sea"-while everything else in the universe was in motion. Thus it provided the only stable "frame of reference." The earth, for instance, was thought to have "absolute motion" through the motionless ether...
...Gloggnitz, a small town 40 miles from Vienna. The Red Army entered the town, and all Easter Sunday and Monday, Dr. Renner waited for something interesting to happen. Nothing did. Bored, Renner set out on Tuesday for a stroll along Gloggnitz' Main Street. Relates Renner with massive calm: "After a while, I came upon two men, one of whom knew a little Russian. He guided me to local Russian headquarters. Here I had an opportunity to explain some of the ideas that I had formulated to protect our people and resume normal life...
Bevin lost his calm tone when he tried to bring home the dreadful day-to-day consequences of the ideological conflict: "[It] is holding up the distribution of food in Europe. Let us fight that out, on some basis, but not on the bellies of the people...