Word: placidness
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...Placid and unmoved sat Chief Censor Deputy Martinaud-Deplat, even when Orator Blum boomed at him, "the personnel of the censorship bureau is discredited with the press because of their ignorance of the conditions in which the press has to work, notably the time limitations to which the press is subjected! ... As for photographs, our inferiority is even more disastrous. I have examined recent issues of an important American magazine and I have noticed many fine German pictures and only two mediocre French photographs...
...late Melvil Dewey was a daring man. He invented the library system of decimal classification, crusaded for the metric system of weights & measures, sponsored simplified spelling used on the menus (pe sup, hucklberi pi) of the fashionable Lake Placid Club, which he founded. If Melvil Dewey had been alive last week, he would have chuckled over his daring granddaughter Katharine...
Twenty-two-year-old Katharine is a nurse by profession but her hobby is perhaps the most dangerous sport in the world-driving a four-man bobsled. Last week she competed at Lake Placid against five of the most skillful U. S. drivers for the national senior bobsled championship...
...question mark Princeton delegation will square off with the Varsity hockey team at 8:30 o'clock tonight at the Boston Arena to revive a rivalry left deadlocked at Lake Placid in the Christmas vacation. Blowing first cold, then hot this season, the Tigers have developed more rapidly than John Harvard and will have a decided edge tonight...
...Tigers have had their ups and downs this winter. The outcome of the Lake Placid series with Harvard was something in the nature of an upset for the Crimson. The Hoddermen have probably been a bit overrated over since that creditable display against the Orange and Black stickmen. Later, the Tigers were cuffed around considerably by Canadian teams, but the 7 to 3 pasting they handed out to Dartmouth in Hanover gave another indirect boost to Harvard hockey...