Word: calms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black and yellow with a glean of crimson. For six minutes?it seemed six hours? tons of steel hurtled through the black smoke?some of it went in long low curves ten miles toward "the enemy ships," some went in steep parabolas toward the enemy aircraft. When all was calm, it was apparent that the enemy ships were well smashed. But the airplanes? According to Lieutenant Commander James H. Strong, 44 anti-aircraft guns on 11 dreadnaughts in 20 rounds of fire (880 shots) failed to score a single hit upon the trailing air-targets...
Interviewed on the political situation, ex-Premier Zaghlul was calm, said: "It is simply this, that constitutional government in Egypt has temporarily ended. Both dissolution of the chamber and the proposed modification by decree of the electoral law. . . are utter unconstitutional...
...announcement on the first page of this issue will calm all anxiety. English 5 is to be continued, and conducted by the one man most capable to succeed Dean Briggs. It is, of course, nonsense to talk of Professor Copeland replacing Dean Briggs, just as it would be absurd to think of anyone replacing "Copey". Great men are never replaced. But a happy providence sometimes makes it possible that they succeed each other, and that providence has watched over English...
...World, James Kirkwood is invariably solemn and virtuous. He wins his woman. Usually he is an outdoor soul with all the calm irresistibility of a brooding oak. He grows, in the present instance, in Africa. Beside him grows his cousin, a dope fiend and a very unpleasant individual. Out comes the girl, in love with the latter. Suicides, hypnotism and a flood are employed to solve the somewhat reminiscent situation. Mr. Kirkwood plays a double part of the hero and the bum. Anna Q. Nilsson is the girl...
...spring training trip was inaugurated last year when two eights left the rough water on the Charles, and enjoyed a week of rowing on the calm waters of the Schuylkill in Philadelphia. The Crimson crews rowed an average daily distance of 15 miles in Philadelphia, and Coach Stevens declared on his return to Cambridge that the trip had proved of inestimable value...