Word: placidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shooting, the knocking, comes a new U. S. speed skating champion-one Francis Allen of Chicago. He competed in the 440-yard, the half-mile, the three-quarter-mile, the one-mile, the twomile, the five-mile races, scored 100 points; his nearest rival, Valentine Bialis of Lake Placid scored...
MINICK - A penetrating, if somewhat placid, investigation of what happens when an old and idle father meddles too long with his daughter's domestic strategies...
...short weeks of vacation have broken the thread of students habits--if one had them. Upon the golf links at Pinehurst, upon the sands at Miami, on the toboggan at Lake Placid, or in the quiet comfort of the family fireside, the Muses whispered in faint and unreal tones; Kant's "Critique" somehow seemed impertinent logic. But now the holidays are over. The dirty stop of Cambridge streets recalls a reality not to be doubted...
CHRONICLES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY?Maud Wyndham ?Hougliton Mifflin?(2 vols., $10.00). These books, based upon the correspondence of the Lyttelton family, cover one of the most placid periods of English history?the early Hanoverian period. Apart from their value to history, which is not inconsiderable, they show what a wide chasm the England of today has jumped...
Transatlantic is a study of the passengers of a great liner on a voyage to the U. S., their problems and their interrelationship. There are, notably, Harry, young American with a continental veneer of snobbery; Burleigh, placid Britisher; Jennie, "good sport," life of the party...