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...appeared evident at the outset that adrenal cortical insufficiency was not a prerequisite for improvement, since it occurred with equal rapidity in patients with 'quiescent' adrenals as well as in those with normal or increased functions...
Variable stars, says Stanley-Jones, may work the same way. When the star is in ai normal quiescent condition, its heavy fissionable atoms are too far apart for a chain reaction to get started. Being heavy, they sink gradually toward the center of the star. As they sink, they approach one another. When they get close enough, a chain reaction is set off. Its heat and radiation make the star expand until the fissionable materials in it are too far apart to react any more...
Singing talents could hardly remain quiescent and undiscovered in a time when serenading was popular and Boston had so many pretty girls, and about 1858, a separate Glee Club was formed. This group gave many joint concerts with Pierian, and the two groups would go out troubadoring many times until "the stupid interference of the officers of the law" finally caught up with the customs and broke it for good...
...princess and her sister Fatmeh were in the U.S. merely to study the Red Cross and other welfare bodies, but Washington had political motives for being nice. Soviet Russia, quiescent since last winter, was rumbling again on Persia's northern border. Persia might need help...
American delegates returning from the Moscow Conference privately stress the fact that any U.S. "wobbling" on the Truman Doctrine will cause the countries threatened by Moscow to lose confidence in the U.S., and will also invite the Russians to further aggressive moves. For the moment, Moscow is rather quiescent. It has made a significant (and long overdue) concession on Korea (see FOREIGN NEWS), and is concentrating on an economic effort to get the most that it can out of eastern and central Europe...