Word: placidness
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...Wisconsin student who walks up a certain street in Madison in summer and early fall, the figure of Dr. Rasmus B. Arderson, age 90, is a family one. He sits in placid silence on the porch of his home and watches with keen eyes the passing parade. There are many who would like to know his thoughts as the daily setting sun throws his rocking chair into shadows. When the Civil War came to an end, he was taking a degree at Luther College in Iowa. In 1866 he embarked on a teaching career as professor of Greek and modern...
When Greece recalled King George II from placid exile in shabby, respectable Brown's Hotel in London last year, it sucked him into a political vortex of danger and unease so critical that his friends were unfairly suspected of having poisoned his chief antagonist, the late General-Dictator George Kondylis (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week King George, normally a sedate and cautious citizen, was driving in nervous haste down an Athens street when a street car suddenly lumbered around a corner directly into his path. Having been tuned by his new life to hair-trigger reflexes, the King swung...
...worked out a system to determine team championships by awarding ten points for first place, five for second, four for third and so on down to one point for sixth in each event. On this basis last week, the U. S., winner of the Olympic Games at Lake Placid in 1932, finished a feeble fifth. Norway won with 121 points. Germany was second with 57, Sweden third with 49. Less startling than these results to the 350,000 people who watched the games was the scrupulous courtesy with which Nazi Germany utilized its opportunity to make a favorable impression...
...Sledding. Like Hubert Stevens, driver of one U. S. Olympic sled, who owns a Lake Placid hotel, is the most famed German bobber, Hans Kilian, who owns one at Garmisch and until last fortnight held the record for the Garmisch run. Like Stevens and a French team, which brought a streamlined sled, Kilian failed miserably last week, wound up in seventh place. Swiss teams took first and second. Three days later the U. S. won its only gold medal of the Games when an Adirondack guide named Ivan Brown, with his neighbor Alan Washbond at the brakes...
...kilometre ski-marathon. Oddbjorn Hagen of Norway won the combination 18-kilometre race and jump. In the ski jump, watched by a crowd of 130,000, Norway's stumpy little Birger Ruud averaged 245 ft. for his two jumps, kept the title he won at Lake Placid four years...