Word: noiseless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dryness that dogs the footsteps of every academic publication. If these are crimes it will suffer for them. But if, on the other hand, they are worth-while efforts, it stands to win. Safer and saner is that paper that "along the cool sequestered vale of life" pursues "the noiseless tenor of its way;" it risks nothing; it will lose nothing; it will win nothing--not even readers. But even at that there is something glorious about...
...made hurly burly of economic tensions, there should still be institutions where young men with the desire to sacrifice a quick start for a wider training may have their desires fulfilled. England is just as busy as America but Oxford and Cambridge continue to pursue "the noiseless tenor of their way". Although institutions like Harvard in this country have been inoculated with the fever, they seem to be tending toward a recovery. Not yet is there much leisure for wide reading, individual thinking, or informal discussions before a fire.' But happily the time should come when those who wish primarily...
...William Bell, of the British Institute of Patentees, has published a list of inventions which the world needs, including glass that will bend, a smooth road surface that will not be slippery in wet weather, unshrinkable flannel, a noiseless airplane, a motor of one pound weight per horsepower, methods of reducing friction, practical ways of utilizing the tides...
...suppression of overzealous reactionary organizations in the country. Between the two factions the whole of Germany is plunged into wildest pandemonium, which is in turn aggravated by the radicals fighting against all comers-for peace! In a country gone sick with misery a solitary phantom strides the earth with noiseless, slippery, dreadful steps -Ludendorff. This crafty man is the leader of the monarchists. He moves but is not seen. From Munich he directs the operations of his reactionary adherents in much the same way that he directed the army supplies when he was Quartermaster General in the Imperial Army...
MINNESOTA: The Twin Cities are to have the first noiseless (roller-bearing) street cars in the world. They are to be installed in April...