Word: placidness
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...same time, hockey coach Clark Hodder announced that plans for a similar western trip for the Varsity pucksters have been cancelled. The team may go to Lake Placid or Princeton during the Christmas holidays...
What a life! Three years ago I was at Harvard enjoying a placid life rowing on the Charles, wandering among the book shops in Boston, or dodging around the coast in a dinghy.... Today, if I am not in the foundry, the machineshop or the drawing office until midnight, I am at home figuring out some new precaution against air-raids, erecting a steel shelter for fire-watching on the roof, propping up the basement to strengthen it, or sharpening axes and replenishing the emergency lamps with oil, and many other jobs which, if sinister, prove, nevertheless, to be interesting...
Dust-Bowl farmers looked at their sodden fields last week and cursed the rain they had longed for in other years. Drought-scarred Kansas was drenched. The water lay in placid sheets high as the wheat heads. On lowland farms and in valleys the grain stood rotting under the stagnant waste of water left by spring floods...
...these times, comes under the secondary heading of civilian production rather than national defense. The patriotism of their motive could not be questioned, and they did not attempt to pass on the general question of whether democracy in trying times does not need its journalists far more than in placid, peaceful days...
Alexandria was busy last week, but not frightened. In the hotels along the placid, sweeping arc of waterfront, civil servants gathered to talk, listen to radio reports, and read the Reuters ticker. In canteens back in the town, soldiers and sailors waited for orders and talked about this chance to crack the Jerries. The fleet was massed in west harbor behind Ras el Tin Point, and in the harbor there was a bustle of ships oiling, coaling, painting, refitting, storing, watering, signaling back & forth. Troops poured into town from East Africa, furious that their winter work was canceled...