Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Hoover, the quiet, plump little Secretary of Commerce, got the Fourth National Radio Conference together, as he did the previous ones. Hitherto the radio industry has kept rather well out of politics and away from legislative regulation. It has done so because of the success of the previous conferences in settling their problems. Mr. Herbert Hoover has been largely responsible for that...
Throughout Syria the repercussions of the French bombardment of Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9) continued ominous in the extreme. The city itself was quiet early in the week and the bazars were open. But the territory between Damascus and Horns, 80 miles to the north, was reported swarming with marauding bands; and the Arabs are persistently rumored to have joined with the Druses in an anti-French "Holy...
...Thaw's hand began to move steadily, cautiously toward his hip pocket. A woman at a nearby table caught a cry to her lips; a fat man upset his drinking glass. Editor Payne sat quiet, tense. In the emergency, his courage was supreme. The slayer's arm moved. He drew from his pocket a handkerchief...
...learning is entirely Allen to the popular conception of a college education. Tenors who do not chew may go elsewhere and do as they please so long as they refrain from undermining the he-man's college. Let the academic shades be sacred to the "bull bass" and the quiet enjoyment of Climax plug...
This evil is magnified in a large college. Scholastic achievement is in its nature a quiet and cloistered honor. It may penetrate as far as intimate friends but such a circle is of necessity a small fraction of the enrolment...