Word: placidness
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This year's ski team will not be selected until after the Club's first meet which will be held at Lake Placid during the Christmas vacation. At this time a four event team will be chosen to take part in cross country, down-hill, slalom, and jumping contests...
Under the M. & O. railway bridge near little Shubuta, Miss. (pop. 756), the lazy Chickasawhay River dawdles its muddy, placid way to the Gulf. But around that trestle has swirled many an ugly and turbulent human emotion. In the last 20 years, three Negroes have been lynched there...
Painted during one of Europe's most war-torn centuries (the 17th), these 70 old Dutch masterpieces are as placid as a cow pasture. They depict not only the quiet surroundings but the quiet minds of sober, thrifty Dutch burghers: well-fed merchants of Amsterdam and Haarlem and their complacent, buxom wives, peaceful seascapes, fertile landscapes, plethoric fishmarkets, tables loaded with fruit and flowers. What makes them great art is no transcendental or heroic message but the unequaled quality of their honest, painstaking craftsmanship...
...name was John L. Severance, but his role in Cleveland was Lorenzo de' Medici's. A bearded, bespectacled man of placid temperament and steady habits who had inherited a vast fortune from his father, Standard Oil's Louis H. Severance, he made up for an otherwise uneventful life by making himself Cleveland's most lavish patron of the arts. As a patron, he had a tycoon's audacity...
...biennial General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches met last week among the placid elms, college and white. Colonial meetinghouse of Durham...