Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Neither of the stories is calculated to disturb the regularity of one's breathing; and yet each has deft touches of characterization. Mr. Davis's sketch of the professional female smuggler glimpses the tedium of a life of pretense in Parisian society. Mr. Rogers's description of editorial ethics on a juvenile newspaper, in spite of its hampering style, gives some amusing aspects of boy nature...
...most important ways this support can be given is in a supreme effort on the part of all the fellows to keep Cambridge quiet tonight. The team will be trying to sleep after nine-thirty and any unnecessary noise in the dormitories or streets will disturb them. Let every man make a point of keeping quiet...
...University. Special care must be taken in construction to have the building fully meet the requirements of a high grade chemical research laboratory. One of the features of the laboratory is the four concrete piers which are entirely apart from the foundations, so that no vibrations can disturb the delicate instruments used in research work...
...trial at Bath, Maine, when the boat reached 20.6 miles per hour with two people aboard. Running at this speed the launch can be handled easily. The launch draws very little water, and the design is unique in that the boat does not leave a wake, sufficient to disturb an eight-oared crew, even when the launch is running at high speed. The bows flare out rather sharply over the surface of the water just above the waterline and give a quick rotary motion to the bow wash, casting the water under the boat, while the broad, almost flat-bottomed...
...nearly concerned. The efforts of students in this direction do, however, accomplish great good in Cambridge and various parts of Boston. Such work cannot fail, moreover, to have its effect in augmenting the dignity and favor which the University commands among people who can do much to annoy and disturb the undergraduates at all hours of the day and night...