Word: placidness
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...Census Bureau which places Boston eighth among American cities, rather than seventh as in 1920, appears to be no vital calamity. Yet the Boston Evening Transcript editorially considers this demotion sufficient reason for uniting the city and its suburbs into a multiple municipality. The smoky sections of Somerville, the placid regions of Newton, the bustling parts of Cambridge, all would be taken under the maternal, Bostonian wing to swell the statistics of population...
...chicken house. There are also a fleet of boats and fishing for speckled and lake trout, black bass and great northern pike. The whole is situated a mile and a half from the Manhattan-Montreal highway, three miles from the railroad, 14 miles from Saranac, 20 miles from Lake Placid, 30 miles from Canada, 70 miles from Montreal and 370 miles from Manhattan...
Since this land is not wholly in the control of the College, opportunity has presented itself to establish profane hotels instead of placid dormitories, or dilatory movies in place of industrious squash courts. For defeating the latest attempt to invade the precincts marked off by their position for University use, gratitude is due to Mr. C. C. Stillman '98. He has given two important tracts, situated in the region reserved for undergraduate clubs and dormitories...
...Alban Mountains, 300 feet beneath the placid waves of the Lago di Nemi,* there are known to rest two gorgeous pleasure barges built for the mad Emperor Caligula, loaded with many of his treasures and sunk inexplicably in this volcanic lake. Last week Premier Mussolini ordered the Ministry of Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts...
Perhaps the placid landscapes in which he, had spent most of his life had begun to vex him a little; perhaps their dreaming beauty was the very irritant that made him take fire at seeing, as if for the first time, the walls and towers, monuments of a fierce physical necessity, that industrial life was evolving here. The City of New York spoke its rocky sermon to him and he, better than any other etcher of this time, understood what it was saying. "When you go out on the ferry to Staten Island," he wrote, "there is one moment...