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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rid Me of This Man! | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

MINNESOTA: The Twin Cities are to have the first noiseless (roller-bearing) street cars in the world. They are to be installed in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE STATES | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...other and really adventitious stimuli will result in encouraging a certain unworthy charlatanism. For my part 1 believe that, as things are, scholarship receives all the "recognition" that it deserves or wants. Your true scholar has always been, and doubtless will continue to be, content to keep the noiseless tenor of his way without (to mix the quotations) making himself a motley to the view. F. N. ARUIN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/18/1921 | See Source »

...proctors at Cornell are to wear noiseless tennis shoes hereafter in the examination rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/6/1882 | See Source »

...extraordinary power of always running down without requiring to be wound up. Its inventor has also discovered perpetual motion, and is now busy squaring the circle. A regiment of soldiers guarded this valuable chariot, and led the way for a bevy of proctors, attired in invisible tights, with noiseless moccasins. A vacant chair (of Theology) was carried on the back of a Zulu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY CIRCUS. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

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