Word: placidness
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...Plump, placid, matronly Mrs. Gertrude Berg scarcely knew what to make of it. The august Princeton University Library wanted to salt away the scripts of her radio show The Goldbergs (TIME, June 23, 1941) as "one of the best serials now being broadcast." In Old Nassau's archives The Goldbergs will find themselves beside such other candidates-for-the-classics as the best of Norman Corwin's scripts, David Loth's Woodrow Wilson, F. van Wyck Mason's Stars...
...Business School across the Charles, a naval training school in the Yard, Army Chaplains in the Divinity School, and last, but not least, WAVES at nearby Radcliffe. Added to the ROTC and NROTC uniforms to be found in the Houses, these service units have changed John Harvard's placid face to a warrior-like visage...
...meets of the caliber of Lake Placid's will be few. But New England can boast the cream of European ski teachers. The world's most famed Skimeister, 52-year-old Hannes Schneider, is continuing at North Conway, N.H. the school he founded in the Austrian Tyrol. At Manchester, Vt. his onetime assistant, Otto Lang, has transplanted the school he operated at Sun Valley during the past two years. Among Lang's corps of assistants are many famed Alpine experts, including Shirley ("Elli") Stiller, one of the few women instructors...
...sentry. They "looped a wire around his neck." Sergei found Natasha with a German officer. He fired. In an instant "she came leaping over the body" into Sergei's arms. Soon they were safe in a snow hut built by Sergei. Fyodor's face was "placid." He was dead...
...Lake Placid vacation amused Coach John Chase's hockey team during the Christmas holidays. With very little collegiate rink action at the winter resort, the Crimson pucksters spent the Yuletide working out on local rinks to keep in shape for the two games scheduled this week...