Word: placidness
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Photographs were taken, some showing commotions in the ordinarily placid waters of the loch, others showing part or parts of what seemed to be a large animal protruding above the surface. It was variously guessed that the monster might be: 1) an elephant seal; 2) a giant squid; 3) a hippopotamus; 4) a basking shark; 5) a crocodile; 6) the wreckage of a World War I Zeppelin. If it was a seal or a shark, it might have blundered into the loch, when young and confused...
...February 28; the threatened death of the "Mole" in the Dick Tracy comic strip had brought residents of Adams House up in arms for his defense, bombarding Chester Gould with telegrams and letters; Clark Hodder, hockey coach, quit under fire, because of a training break he authorized at Lake Placid; and intercollegiate sports programs continued practically as usual...
...third straight year, the crews of Eliot House swept the Charles in the finals of the House races held over a placid Henley in the basin yesterday afternoon. In the day's other trials, Frank Cunningham's Jayvee 150's upset the Varsity lightweights, and the Jayvee heavies reasserted their superiority over the third Varsity...
...Nelson, the big, placid-faced man at the throttle, sat before the Truman committee, pulled carefully on his cigar, and sounded a carefully measured optimism...
I.N.A.'s President John A. Diemand (elected last year) and its fiery Vice President Ludwig C. Lewis were brought up not in the placid field of domestic insurance, but in casualty & marine insurance, where there is active international price competition for business. Among the new ideas they want to introduce...