Word: placidness
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...committee that produced the report spent four years exploring the relation of emotion to learning. It had a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Its chairman is husky, placid Professor Daniel Alfred Prescott, 40, of Rutgers University. A onetime Harvard teacher, Dr. Prescott is widely respected by educators for his tremendous research in sociology and psychology, is also an indefatigable stamp collector...
Where dinosaurs walked of old, the placid Connecticut now flows. But the Geology boys found one exposure, well known to curiosity seekers. Unsatisfied with the few footprints to be seen, and inspired by the scars where thieves had already managed to escape with several spear, the boys began to hack away at the layers of rock...
...afternoons an elderly man with soft, inquisitive eyes and a flowing halo of white hair ambled in & out of Fine Hall, pausing to admire the changing season. He had always felt close to Nature-ever since his unhappy childhood in Munich, his happy youth in Italy, his placid days in Switzerland when he worked for the Berne patent office and pondered the structure of the world...
...afternoon last week a man walking along placid West Main Street in Belleville, Ill. suddenly looked up in horror, saw something approaching that looked like a giant black ice cream cone and roared with the noise of a hundred freight trains. That day, the same ominous sight and sound terrified farmers and townsfolk at random points through the Mississippi valley in Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama and Iowa. But in Belleville, where it was to destroy some 60 dwellings, kill ten people and injure 35, last week's twister struck hardest...
...time was ever quite as interesting as the present. In Europe, a new balance of power is emerging; in the Far East, a new nation is building an empire; and in Austria, Hitler is beginning to realize his long sought-after union of the German peoples. In Switzerland, the placid waters of Lake Geneva lap in the ears of the few remaining statesmen who cling to the ideal of collective security, and in the rest of the world prophets of despair are again preparing funeral services for the League of Nations. Here in America, even while mid-western senators...