Word: placidness
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Planck was born in Kiel, Germany, in 1858, and grew up in the placid, self-satisfied world of 19th Century physics. He became a professor at the University of Kiel, married the daughter of a Munich banker, played the piano and composed music, lived the good intellectual life of Germany's pre-World War I golden age. Outwardly, he did not appear to be a world-shaking revolutionist...
Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, recently retired as deputy commander of the U.S. Air Forces, got the first civilian job of his 51 years: vice president of storm-tossed Millionaire Howard Hughes's placid Hughes Tool...
...pearl smuggler. He marries deep-chested Ava Gardner just in time to lose track of her when the Japanese take Singapore. After the war he comes back to look for her and for some pearls he hid in an electric fan. He and his contraband manage a relatively placid reunion, having to contend only with British law and with a crook (Thomas Gomez...
...even in the usually placid interval between halves did last Saturday's high pitch of excitement waver. Definitely outclassed instrumentally along the ground, the B.U. band resorted to the use of their air arm to gain a tie in the much heralded-by BU tub thumpers-battle of the bands...
...racing stables in income for five of the past seven years. What Calumet has, besides plenty of capital, is a lot of good horse-sense. All its horses come from the same incubator-1,038 acres of rolling blue-grass just outside Lexington, Ky. Its proprietor is placid Warren Wright, who inherited his millions from Calumet baking powder. His recipe for breeding horses: "Just mix the best with the best and hope for the best...